"Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies. But markets are not abstract. Even as the idea of the...

Equilibrium in mechanics and then in economics, 1860-1920 : a good source for analogies? / Ivor Grattan-Guinness -- Between economics and chemistry : Lavoisier's and Le Chatelier's notions of equilibrium / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Valeria Mosini -- The ubiquity of the notion of...