num_pages: 462
description: 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.
language: English
title: More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics
titlecomplete: More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)
genres: History, Science, Philosophy, Physics, Nonfiction, History Of Science, Economics
ratings_count: 66
series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
publisher: Cambridge University Press