Philip Mirowski

Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Mirowski has written numerous books including More Heat than Light, Machine Dreams and, most recently Science-Mart.

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 (2004; winner of the Ludwig Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science), Machine Dreams (2001), and ScienceMart™ (2010) and the edited volumes Agreement on Demand (2006), Science Bought and Sold (2001), and The Road from Mont Pèlerin (2009). His work has previously been the subject of a conference at Duke University (proceedings published as Non-Natural Economics, ed. Neil de Marchi) and one of the profiles in Michael Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft. His book More Heat than Light (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. He has received grants from the NSF, NEH, and the Seng Foundation, and was elected President of the History of Economics Society for 2011.