Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Part One From Economics to Science Studies
4. Introduction: Cracks, Hidden Passageways, and False Bottoms: The Economics of Science and Social Studies of Economics 1
5. 1 Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible 37
6. Part Two Science as an Economic Phenomenon
7. 2 On Playing the Economics Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn't Work for Michael Polanyi 53
8. 3 Economics, Science, and Knowledge: Polanyi versus Hayek 72
9. 4 What's Kuhn Got to Do with It? 85
10. 5 The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher 97
11. 6 Re-engineering Scientific Credit in the Era of the Globalized Information Economy 116
12. Part Three Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon
13. 7 Looking for Those Natural Numbers: Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement 147
14. 8 A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage 169
15. Part Four Is Econometrics an Empirical Endeavor?
16. 9 Brewing, Betting, and Rationality in London, 1822-1844: What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us about Historical Actors 195
17. 10 Why Econometricians Don't Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce) 213
18. 11 From Mandelbrot to Chaos in Economic Theory 229
19. 12 Mandelbrot's Economics after a Quarter-Century 251
20. Part Five Episodes from the History of the "Laws of Supply and Demand"
21. 13 The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton: An Introduction and Justification 273
22. 14 Smooth Operator: How Marshall's Demand and Supply Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption but Unfit for Science 335
23. 15 Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics: Henry Ludwell Moore 357
24. 16 Refusing the Gift 376
25. Notes 401
26. References 427
27. Index 459