{"product_id":"peircezas-science-of-economics-and-james-r-wible-9780197839539","title":"Peirceâs Science of Economics and Economics of Science","description":"Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is most famous today as a philosopher, the founder of the philosophical school of Pragmatism, and as a logician. In his own day, he was better known as a bench scientist, astronomer, and metrologist, renowned in the international scientific community for his measurements of gravity. Peirce was, in fact, one of history's great polymaths: mathematician, a founder of semiotics and one of the earliest experimental psychologists, as well as a contributor to a number of other disciplines, lexicography, and for decades a scientific contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e. Perhaps the least understood of Peirce's many contributions are his forays into economics. In the 1870s, no one in the world had a better understanding of mathematical economics or its applications to real-world problems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeirce's Science of Economics and Economics of Science\u003c\/em\u003e is a careful examination of his engagement with economics. It takes an interdisciplinary approach. As history of economics, it reconstructs how Peirce came to possess a cutting-edge knowledge of mathematical economics at the dawn of the so-called \"marginalist revolution,\" how he used that knowledge in concrete applications, and how he understood the nature of economics as a science. As a wider history of science, it shows how Peirce created the economics of science out of a whole cloth as part of resolving methodological problems that arose in his work of measuring gravity. The book explores applications of Peirce's ideas about economics to some long-standing problems in the philosophy of science and shows how these ideas have implications for real-world science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James R. Wible,Kevin D. Hoover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197839533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197839539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"James R. Wible","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520229585151,"sku":"9780197839539","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a53eb3f-d548-4c26-9956-df6e2e5b1364.jpg?v=1778741510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peircezas-science-of-economics-and-james-r-wible-9780197839539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}