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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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Economics, Philosophy and Physics
by Hsieh,Ching-YaoFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1992-03-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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