Philip Mirowski

Philip Mirowski Edward ( born August 21, 1951 in Jackson, Michigan) is an American economic historian and cultural critic.

Career, teaching and research

Mirowski graduated in 1973 graduated in economics at Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he first took off in 1976 his Master of Arts before he in 1979 as a Ph.D. graduated.

1978 Mirowksi joined as Assistant Professor at his service at the Santa Clara University before he moved on in 1981 at the Tufts University. After a short stay in 1984/85 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he returned as an associate professor back to the Tufts University. In 1990 he accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame and took over the Carl Koch Chair of Economics and History and Philosophy of Science.

Special Mirowski gained fame with his first published work in 1989 More heat than light - economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics, in which he described the interaction between modern economic theory and physical findings. With work as a central factor and starting point of value determination, he established the success of theories in particular by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, François Quesnay and David Ricardo with the agreement with the knowledge of scientific processes and the rational teachings of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and René Descartes. In the following years he published several publications in which he developed this line of thought further detail on load and usage of other economists. This is in particular the exchange of energy and utility as an indicator in the center of the investigation. In his published in 2001, Machine Dreams - Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science Mirowski presented the work of John von Neumann in the center, to play and to investigate the basis of which machines theories the influence of military and cyborgs on the neoclassical economists.

Publications

• As editor: Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, ISBN 0-521-44321-0.
• More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics; Physics as Nature's Economics. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, ISBN 0-521-42689-8.
• Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, ISBN 0-521-77526-4.
• Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economy of Science. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2002, ISBN 0-226-53857-5.
• The Effortless Economy of Science? Duke University Press, Durham 2004, ISBN 0-8223-3322-8.
• As editor, with Dieter Plehwe: The road from Mont Pelerin: the making of the neoliberal thought collective. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03318-4.
• Science -Mart. Privatizing American Science. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2011, ISBN 978-0-674-04646-7.
• Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste. How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown. Verso, London / New York, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78168-079-7.