Mirowsky Philip. More heat than light: economics as social physics, physics as nature`s economics

Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 460 p.Figures pageThe fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides
Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask: The history of the energy concept
Body, motion, and value
Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870
Neoclassical economic theory: An irresistable field of force meets an immovable object
The corruption of the field metaphor, and the retrogression to substance theories of value: Neoclassical production theory
The ironies of physics envy
Universal history is the story of different intonations
given to a handful of metaphors
Appendix The mathematics of the Lagrangian and Hamiitonian formalisms