||33 of 33 people found the following review helpful.| Impressive and fun|By A. J. Sutter|As you can see from the previous reviews, this is a book that provokes strong feelings. As usual that's often more a reflection on the reader than on the book. You'd never guess that this book is (by intention) very funny. But it is.
Mirowski has written elsewhere that John von Neumann is the "hero" of this book. Von Neumann thou||"As history, Machine Dreams is a remarkable achievement. It is hard to imagine a historian who was not an economist (as Mirowski is) being able to encompass the economics of the second half of the 20th century in its diversity and technicality." London o
This was the first cross-over book into the history of science written by an historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. It links the literature on 'cyborg' to econom...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science | Philip Mirowski. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
