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Book More Heat Than Light

Download or read book More Heat Than Light written by Philip Mirowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect on the emergence of neoclassical economics are traced to reveal how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value.

Book More Heat than Life  The Tangled Roots of Ecology  Energy  and Economics

Download or read book More Heat than Life The Tangled Roots of Ecology Energy and Economics written by Jeremy Walker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene. Reconstructing their constitution as separate sciences in the era of fossil-fuelled industrial capitalism, the book offers an explanation of how the ecological sciences have moved from a position of critical collision with mainstream economics in the 1970s, to one of collusion with the project of permanent growth, in and through the thermal crisis of the biosphere.

Book Against Mechanism

Download or read book Against Mechanism written by Philip Mirowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1992-01-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...the history of economic theory at its best.'-EASTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL

Book Machine Dreams

Download or read book Machine Dreams written by Philip Mirowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first cross-over book into the history of science written by an historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. It links the literature on 'cyborg' to economics, an element missing in literature to date. The treatment further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents, arguing that neoclassical economics has participated in the deconstruction of the integral 'self'. Finally, it argues for an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism.

Book More Heat Than Light

Download or read book More Heat Than Light written by Philip Mirowski and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Heat Than Light is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and also how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. It traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect upon the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics. Any discussion of the standing of economics as a science must include the historical symbiosis between the two disciplines. Starting with the philosopher Emile Meyerson's discussion of the relationship between notions of invariance and causality in the.

Book More Heat Than Light

Download or read book More Heat Than Light written by Philip Mirowski and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. The author traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect on the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics, the modern orthodox theory.

Book Heat and Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Haigh
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 0062199080
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Heat and Light written by Jennifer Haigh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.

Book Love is a Stranger

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Wiltshire
  • Publisher : Decent Fellows Press
  • Release : 2023-07-28
  • ISBN : 3757950046
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Love is a Stranger written by John Wiltshire and published by Decent Fellows Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST IN THE SOVAS (Society of Voice Arts and Sciences) Audiobook Award 2021 - Thriller Category. Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he's in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package.

Book From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

Download or read book From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book More Heat Than Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Lewitt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780997567410
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book More Heat Than Light written by Sam Lewitt and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Light without Heat

Download or read book Light without Heat written by David Carroll Simon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the New Science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind. Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.

Book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste

Download or read book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste written by Philip Mirowski and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity are as strong as ever. Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is the definitive account of the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, and how neoliberal ideas were used to solve the very crisis they had created. Now updated with a new afterword, Philip Mirowski’s sharp and witty work provides a roadmap for those looking to escape today’s misguided economic dogma.

Book Heat and Light

Download or read book Heat and Light written by Mike Wallace and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heat & Light, a legendary journalist and a journalism professor join forces to offer a one-of-a-kind guide for our next generation of great journalists. Drawing on the authors' decades of experience at the top of the field and inspired directly by beginners’ most frequently asked questions, Heat & Light offers invaluable advice on such topics as: · balancing drama and information (‘heat’ vs. ‘light’) · generating and evaluating story ideas · the secrets to crafting good ledes · creating strong packages for the internet, tv, and radio · the specific requirements of writing for print and broadcast · the art of the interview Along the way, the authors share countless anecdotes from their own storied careers—and discuss larger questions such as the rapidly growing role of digital media and what it means for today’s aspiring journalists. Includes an extensive "reporter’s toolbox" of checklists, techniques, and resources

Book Exploring Heat Light Sound Energy

Download or read book Exploring Heat Light Sound Energy written by Shweta Sinha and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is full of energy from the amazing power of the sun to the food we eat. Energy makes things work. Did you know heat, light, and sound are different forms of energy? How do these various forms of energy affect our everyday lives? Light is energy you can see, heat is energy you can feel, and sound is energy you can hear. Exploring Heat Light Sound Energy explains the various forms of energy and its relation with the environment Follow the questions and answers and learn interesting facts and get active with easy-to-do science experiments.

Book Heat and Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen van Neerven
  • Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
  • Release : 2023-05-30
  • ISBN : 0702267902
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Heat and Light written by Ellen van Neerven and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real. Over three parts, van Neerven takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In 'Heat', we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In 'Water', a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In 'Light', familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging. Heat and Light is an intriguing collection that heralded the arrival of a major new talent in Australian writing.

Book The Birth of the Business Cycle  RLE  Business Cycles

Download or read book The Birth of the Business Cycle RLE Business Cycles written by Philip E. Mirowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing economic theory and English economic history from the eighteenth century until the late 1970s this volume discusses among other things fixed capital and problems with the definition of the premodern economy as well as providing a chronology of 18th century business cycles.