More Heat than Light
Subtitle: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 29, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780521426893
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Physics; Economic History; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Economics - Theory; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Business & Economics / Economics / Theory; Business & Economics / Management; Economics; Economics Economics; Science-Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science-Physics
First sentence: One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges, once penned an essay titled "The Fearful Sphere of Pascal" (Borges 1962, pp. 189-92).