Física e Economia: tangências metodológicas: breve interpretação de como as Ciências Naturais influenciaram o pensamento econômico pela perspectiva de Philip Mirowski

Abstract

This study investigates the methodological intersections between physics and economics, based on the work More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics by Philip Mirowski (1989). The focus here is on the appropriation of concepts from the natural sciences, particularly energy, and its influence on the formulation of classical and neoclassical economic theories. Mirowski's (1989) analysis encompasses both the use of scientific metaphors and the implications of transposing principles from physics, such as conservation, to the economic domain. The author grounds his critique in the inadequacy of this approach, arguing that the quest for scientific legitimacy led economics to focus on mathematical modeling that disregards the social and behavioral dimensions of its phenomena. Finally, this work seeks to reflect on the impacts of this methodology on the construction of the theory of value and on the epistemological limitations faced by contemporary economics.