Energy and Society (winter 2022)
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Assigned reading:
Hermann Heinrich Gossen, "The general laws of pleasure and economic value," in The Laws of Human Relations and the Rules of Human Action Derived Therefrom, trans. Rudolph C. Blitz (1983 [1854]), 3-14, 25-39. [And if you have any economics training you should absolutely read the entire text.]
Sergei Podolinsky, "Socialism and the unity of physical forces" (1880).
[in class] Irving Fisher, "Mechanical analogies," Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices (1926).Suggested reading:
M. Norton Wise and Crosbie Smith, "Work and waste: Political economy and natural philosophy in nineteenth century Britain," History of Science 27 (1989) (part 1 and part 2) and 28 (1990) (part 3).
Philip Mirowski, More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (1989).