Economics, Philosophy and Physics

, by Hsieh,Ching-Yao

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ISBN: 9780873327602 | 0873327608
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Copyright: 3/31/1992

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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Classical Greek World View
Philosophy
Science
Economics
The World View of Saint Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas's Philosophy
The Scholastic Approach to Science
St. Thomas's Economics
The Disintegration of the Medieval World View
Newtonian Physics, Philosophy, and Economics	p. 3
Newton's Grand Synthesis	p. 6
Newton's Influence on the Enlightenment	p. 10
The Newtonian Heritage of Contemporary Economics	p. 14
Reductionism	p. 14
Linearity	p. 17
Deterministic Prediction and Newtonian Absolute Time	p. 27
The Romantic Protest against the Newtonian Mechanistic World View	p. 41
Romanticism and Philosophy	p. 42
Romanticism and Science	p. 44
Romanticism and Economics	p. 47
Thermodynamics and the Newtonian World View	p. 55
The Second Law of Thermodynamics	p. 55
Thermodynamics and Economics	p. 58
Thermodynamics and Philosophy	p. 60
Relativity, Philosophy, and Economics	p. 67
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (1905)	p. 70
The General Theory of Relativity (1915)	p. 76
Philosophical Consequences of Relativity Theory	p. 77
Relativity and Economics	p. 80
Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy, and Economics	p. 85
Main Features of Quantum Mechanics	p. 87
The Inherent Wholeness of Atomic Process	p. 88
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	p. 92
The Post-Copenhagen-Interpretation Synthesis	p. 96
Quantum Mechanics and Economics	p. 103
Quantum Mechanics and Philosophy	p. 104
Chaos Theory, Philosophy, and Economics	p. 113
From Laplacian Determinism to Fundamental Uncertainty	p. 114
Fractals, and Fractals and Chaos	p. 119
Chaos and Philosophy	p. 124
Chaos and Economics	p. 129
The Revolutions in Physics and the Future of Economics	p. 133
Bibliography	p. 155
Index	p. 162
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