More Heat Than Light. Economics as Social Physics: Physics as Nature's Economics.

@inproceedings{Backhouse1991MoreHT,
  title={More Heat Than Light. Economics as Social Physics: Physics as Nature's Economics.},
  author={Roger E. Backhouse and Philip Mirowski},
  year={1991}
}
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