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The study of the interactions between the natural sciences and economics has become a lively field of inquiry (Cohen 1993). Historically, physics has constituted the principal model for a vast majority of orthodox theorists (both classical and neoclassical) pursuing scientific inquiry in economics. Research on the origin and nature of common methodological tools of analysis between economics and physics has been extensively carried out by Mirowski (1989) and others (Drakopoulos 1994; Zouboulakis 1993). The conclusion has been that, while showing significant differences in the object of inquiry, economists have strongly sought to emulate methodological developments in the physical sciences.
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Seccareccia, M. (1997). Early Twentieth-Century Heterodox Monetary Thought. In: Cohen, A.J., Hagemann, H., Smithin, J. (eds) Money, Financial Institutions and Macroeconomics. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5362-1_9
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