NATURAL IMAGES IN ECONOMIC-THOUGHT - MIROWSKI,P

An extended review of Philip Mirowski's edited collection, Natural Ima ges in Economic Thought. Examines the roles of metaphors; the relation ships between metaphors of the ''natural'' and the ''social''; the sig nificance of metaphoric reasoning for economics, with regard to questi ons of meaning, ontology and epistemology; the discursive, or rhetoric al, nature of economic theory; and significant historical and interpre tive issues pertinent to economic thought.