Philip Mirowski

Philip Mirowski, the Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics, is professor of economics and policy studies and the history and philosophy of science at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a fellow of Notre Dame’s John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values. He is internationally renowned for his work in the history and philosophy of economics.

Mirowski is perhaps best known for the book More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, a history of economic thought and theory. In 2007, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization devoted an entire issue to a symposium held on one of Mirowski’s papers, “Markets comes to bits,” with commentary on his work by 16 leading economists and computer scientists. His 2004 book, Effortless Economy of Science?, won the Ludwig Fleck Prize, awarded annually to the best book in science and technology studies by the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Mirowski’s most recent book, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2013), was chosen as a "book of the week" by the Times Higher Education Supplement. In addition, Mirowski has served visiting academic appointments at universities around the world, including All Souls College at Oxford University; the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay; the University of Aix‐Marsailles, France; Erasmus University, Holland; Yale University; and Duke University.