Serendipity in Writing the Lives of Scientists

Authors

  • Till Düppe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/serendipities.v1i1.122867

Keywords:

Biography, Biographical Determinism

Abstract

Symposium “Personal Encounters with Serendipities”

References

Debreu, Gérard (1991). “Random Walk and Life Philosophy.” American Economist 35 (2): 3–7.

Düppe, Till (2011). The Making of the Economy: A Phenomenology of Economic Science. Lexington Books.

Düppe, Till (2012a). “Arrow and Debreu De-homogenized.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 34 (4): 491–551.

Düppe, Till (2012b). “Gérard Debreu’s Secrecy: His Life in Order and Silence.” History of Political Economy 44 (3): 413–49.

Düppe, Till, and E. Roy Weintraub (2014). Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit. Princeton University Press.

Hacking, Ian (1990). The Taming of Chance. Cambridge University Press.

Hankins, Thomas L. (2007). “Biography and the Reward System in Science.” in The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography, ed. Thomas Söderqvist. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 93–104.

Mas-Colell, Andrew 1987. “Transformation in general equilibrium theory and methods: an interview,” in George Feiwel (ed), Arrow and the Ascent of Modern Economic Theory. Macmillan.

Söderqvist, Thomas (1997). ‘Existential Projects and Existential Choice in Science: Science Biography as an Edifying Genre.’ in, Michael Shortland & Richard Yeo, (ed.), Telling Lives: Studies of Scientific Biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 45–84.

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Published

2016-03-01

How to Cite

Düppe, T. (2016) “Serendipity in Writing the Lives of Scientists”, Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 1(1), pp. 7–10. doi: 10.7146/serendipities.v1i1.122867.

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016): Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences

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Symposium

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