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Part One From Economics to Science Studies 1Introduction: Cracks, Hidden Passageways, and False Bottoms: The Economics of Science and Social Studies Economics 31. Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible 37Part Two Science as an Economic Phenomenon 512. On Playing the Economics Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn’t Work for Michael Polanyi 533. Economics, Science, and Knowledge: Polanyi versus Hayek 724. What’s Kuhn Got to Do with It? 855. The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher 976. Re-engineering Scientific Credit in the Era of Globalized Information Economy 116Part Three Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon 1457. Looking for Those Natural Numbers: Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement 1478. A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage 169Part Four Is Econometrics an Empirical Endeavor? 1939. Brewing, Betting, and Rationality in London, 1822-1844: What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us about Historical Actors 19510. Why Econometricians Don’t Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce) 21311. From Mandlebrot to Chaos in Economic Theory 22912. Mandelbrot’s Economics after a Quarter-Century 25113. The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton: An Introduction and Justification 27314. Smooth Operator: How Marshall’s Demand and Supply-Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption but Unfit for Science 33515. Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics: Harry Ludwell Moore 35716. Refusing the Gift 376Notes 401References 427Index 459