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Publication details [#3469]

Christensen, Paul P. 1994. Fire, motion, and productivity: The proto-energetics of nature and economy in François Quesnay In Mirowski, Philip. Natural Images in Economic Thought (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics). Cambridge , UK: Cambridge University Press .

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

economic metaphor | economic thought | fire metaphor | history of economic thought | history of science | motion metaphor | natural metaphor | organic metaphor | use of images in economics | use of metaphor in economics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge , UK: Cambridge University Press