E Roy Weintraub: 16 books
by E. Roy Weintraub, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting...
Finding Equilibrium
Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Finding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in 1954 by...
Science without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to,...
by John Kadvany, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language...
Evolution's Eye
A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2000
In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates...
Tissue Economies
Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns...
Genes in Development
Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is pervasive. Yet new scientific discoveries—such as...
The Mangle in Practice
Science, Society, and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and...
The Body Multiple
Ontology in Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of...
Aircraft Stories
Decentering the Object in Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft—the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts.
Law...
The Heavens on Earth
Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and...
Complexities
Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002
Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors...
Growing Explanations
Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them...
The Provocative Joan Robinson
The Making of a Cambridge Economist
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was...
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