Philip Mirowski
Professor of Economics
400 Decio Hall
Notre Dame, IN
Phone: (574) 631-7580
Email: Philip.E.Mirowski.1@nd.edu
CV: Philip E. Mirowski
Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics
Fellow of
Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1979
M.A., University of Michigan, 1976
B.A., Michigan State University, 1973
Mirowski’s areas of specialization are in the history and philosophy of economics, and the economics of knowledge, with subsidiary areas in evolutionary computational economics, the economics of science and technological change, science studies and the history of the natural sciences. His most recent books are The Effortless Economy of Science (Duke, 2004; winner of the Ludwig Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science), Machine Dreams (Cambridge, 2001) and the edited volumes Agreement on Demand (Duke, 2006), Science Bought and Sold (Chicago, 2001), and The Road from Mont Pèlerin (Harvard, 2009). His work has previously been the subject of a conference at Duke University (proceedings published as Non-Natural Economics edited by Neil de Marchi) and one of the profiles in Michael Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft. His book More Heat than Light (Cambridge, 1989) has been translated into French (2001). He has been the recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the Santa Fe Institute and NYU, and was elected visiting fellow at All Souls’ College Oxford.
Current Research Interests:
- Computational Economic Theory
- Treatment of Error in Various Sciences
- The Economics of Sciences
- History of The Cyborg Sciences
- Impact of Computer on Economics
- History of Supply and Demand Theories
- Computational Limitations on Market Functions
- Alternative Evolutionary Scenarios in Economics
- Military Influence of Scientific Research
- Computer Automation of Financial Markets
- History of the Computer
- Histopry of Economic Anthropology
