Philip E. Mirowski

Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Policy Studies

Degrees

B.A., Michigan State University; M.A. University of Michigan; Ph.D. University of Michigan.

Research Profile

Mirowski's areas of specialization are in the history and philosophy of economics, with subsidiary areas in evolutionary computational economics, the economics of science, science studies and the history of the natural sciences. His most recent books are Machine Dreams (Cambridge, 2001) and the edited volumes The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton (5.vols., Pickering & Chatto, 1999) and (with Esther-Mirjam Sent) Science Bought and Sold (Chicago, 2001). His work has been the subject of a conference at Duke University (proceedings published as Non-Natural Economics edited by Neil de Marchi) and the subject of one of the profiles in Michael Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft. A frequent visiting professor in Europe, his book More Heat than Light (1989) has been translated into French.

Contact Information

400 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-7580
Philip.E.Mirowski.1@nd.edu