More Heat than Light

Philip Mirowski traces how physics took some inspiration from economics and how economics tried to imitate physics, above all in the theory of value. He follows how the concept of energy developed in Western physics and how it shaped the creation and spread of neoclassical economics, today's orthodox theory.

Thiel Capital managing director Eric Weinstein included it on the four shelves of books he posted on Twitter as the ones that mattered enough to take home from an office he cleared out.