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Since Nick is taking AP Macroeconomics this semester, it seems like a good time to really understand Mirowski’s derivation of the analogy between “energetics” in 19th century physics and neoclassical economics. Even better, could I also understand Longo’s evolutionary economics model with it’s un-pre-stateable phase space?

Mirowski has a couple papers online that discuss parts of this development. However, it looks like the go-to discussion is the book More Heat Than Light. In [mirowski:1992:economists],