Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

9/1/1987 - 5/31/1989

Funding Totals

$78,000.00 (approved)
$78,000.00 (awarded)


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.