Paul Ehrenfest and Jan Tinbergen: A Case of Limited Physics Transfer
研究了两位物理学家埃伦费斯特和丁伯根如何将物理学背景用于理解经济学,发现他们依赖的是形式上的类比而非能量隐喻。
A case of physics transfer in which two physicists, Jan Tinbergen and Paul Ehrenfest, got interested in economics and tried to use their background in physics to comprehend it. It was, however, not the energy metaphor that guided them, but an analogy in formalism.