Mathematics as a Means of Metaphor Transfer Between Disciplines: From Physics to Economics
FAIN: RH-20810-87
Tufts University (Somerville, MA 02144-2401)
Philip G. Mirowski (Project Director: October 1986 to October 1989)
To support a study of the rhetoric of economics in the 19th century in order tounderstand the attempt to make economics a mathematical science.