Philip Mirowski is een historicus en filosoof van het economisch denken. Zijn werk richt zich voornamelijk op de geschiedenis en filosofie van de wetenschap, waarbij de nadruk ligt op de evolutie en kritiek van economische theorieën. Hij onderzoekt hoe economisch denken is gevormd en welke maatschappelijke en wetenschappelijke invloeden het hebben beïnvloed. Zijn analyses bieden dieper inzicht in de aard van economische concepten en hun historische context.
Neoliberalism was born at the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938 and only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Paelerin Society in Vevey, Switzerland in 1947. The book's contributors make heavy use of the original archival materials and make good of the editors' promise to expose the complexity, nuance and pularity of neoliberal thought.
The definitive account of why neoliberal solutions were used to solve a neoliberal crisis.
This was the first cross-over book into the history of science written by a historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. It links the literature on 'cyborg' to economics, an element missing in literature to date. The treatment further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents, arguing that neoclassical economics has participated in the deconstruction of the integral 'self'. Finally, it argues for an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism.