In economic thermodynamics, Philip E. Mirowski (1951-) is an American economist and science historian noted for his 1989 book More Heat than Light, wherein he outlines the use of physics and thermodynamics, particularly the conservation of energy, in economics, giving a somewhat objectionable view along the way. [1]

In his 1988 book Against Mechanism: Protecting Economics from Science, Mirowski opens to a 1900 quote of American economist Thorstein Veblen who discusses the idea of economic laws in relation to a possible “law of conservation of economic energy”, which Mirowski’s seems to use as an example of a “bold assertion in the face of ignorance”. [2]

Education
Miriowski completed his BA in 1973 from Michigan State University, and his MA (1976) and PhD (1979) from the University of Michigan, all in economics. [3]

References
1. Mirowski, Philip. (1989). More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics. Cambridge University Press.
2. (a) Mirowski, Philip. (1988). Against Mechanism: How to Protect Economics from Science (pg. 1). Rowman & Littlefield.
(b) Veblen, Thorstein. (1919). The Place of Science and Other Essays (pg. 283). B.W. Huebsch.
3. Philip Mirowski – Curriculum vita.

Further reading
● Philip, Mirowiki. (1989). “How not to do things with Metaphors: Paul Samuelson and the Science of Neoclassical Economic.” (abstract). Studies in the History of Philosophy of Science Part A, Vol 20, Issue 2, June, pgs. 175-91.
● Mirowski, Philip. (1997). “Machine Dreams: Economic Agents as Cyborgs”, pgs. 13-40, in New Economics and its History by John Davis. Duke University Press.
● Carlson, Mathieu J. (1997). “Mirowski’s Thesis and the ‘Integrability Problem’ in Neoclassical Economics”, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 31.
● Rizvi, S. Abu Turab. (2001). “Philip Mirowski as a Historian of Economic Thought.” In: Historians of Economic Thought: the Construction of Disciplinary Memory (ch. 11). Routledge.

External links
● Philip Mirowski – Wikipedia.
● Mirowski, Philip (1951-) – WorldCat Identities.