List of contributors Acknowledgements Part I. The Natural and the Social: 1. Doing what comes naturally: four metanarratives on what metaphors are for Philip Mirowski 2. So what's an economic metaphor? Arjo Klamer and Thomas C. Leonard Part II. Physical Metaphors and Mathematical Formalization: 3. Newton and the social sciences, with special reference to economics, or, the case of the missing paradigm I. Bernard Cohen 4. From virtual velocities to economic action: the very slow arrivals of linear programming and locational equilibrium Ivor Grattan-Guinness 5. Qualitative dynamics in economics and fluid mechanics: a comparison of recent applications Randall Bausor 6. Rigor and practicality: rival ideals of quantification in nineteenth-century economics Theodore M. Porter Part III. Uneasy boundaries between man and machine: 7. Economic man, economic machine: images of circulation in the Victorian money market Timothy L. Alborn 8. The moment of Richard Jennings: the production of Jevons's marginalist economic agent Michael V. White 9. Economics and evolution: Alfred James Lotka and the economy of nature Sharon E. Kingsland Part IV. Organic Metaphors and their stimuli: 10. Fire, motion, and productivity: the proto-energetics of nature and economy in Francois Quesnay Paul P. Christensen 11. Organism as a metaphor in German economic thought Michael Hutter 12. The greyhound and the mastiff: Darwinian themes in Mill and Marshall Margaret Schabas 13. Organization and the division of labor: biological metaphors at work in Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics, Camille Limoges and Claude Menard 14. The role of biological analogies in the theory of the firm Neil B. Niman 15. Does evolutionary theory give comfort of inspiration to economics? Alexander Rosenberg 16. Hayek, evolution, and spontaneous order Geoffrey M. Hodgson Part V. Negotiating over Nature: 17. The realms of the Natural Philip Mirowski 18. The place of economics in the hierarchy of the sciences: Section F from Whewell to Edgeworth James P. Henderson 19. The kinds of order in society James Bernard Murphy 20. Feminist accounting theory as a critique of what's 'natural' in economics David Chioni Moore Index.