Agreement on Demand: Consumer Choice Theory in the Twentieth Century (History of Political Economy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822366681 ISBN 13: 9780822366683

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Demonstrates that demand theory is more complicated than it is generally imagined to be.

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About the Author

Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of specialization are in the history and philosophy of economics and the politics and economics of knowledge, with subsidiary areas in evolutionary computational economics, the economics of science and technological change, science studies and the history of the natural sciences. His most recent books include The Effortless Economy of Science (2004, winner of the Ludwig Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science), Machine Dreams (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and ScienceMart (2011), and he edited Agreement on Demand (2006), Science Bought and Sold (2001) and The Road from Mont Pelerin (2009). His landmark book More Heat than Light (Cambridge University Press, 1989) has been translated into French (2001). He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright program and New York University and was elected visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was elected President of the History of Economics Society for 2011.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0822366681
• ISBN 13: 9780822366683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Mirowski Philip, Hands D. Wade