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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