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Proceedings of the "New Economics and its Writing [sic] conference held at Duke University in March 1996"--p. 2. Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine dreams: economic agents as cyborgs / Philip Mirowski -- Engineering dynamic economics / Esther-Mirjam Sent -- Lucas and artificial worlds / Marcel Boumans -- A historical perspective on the common methodological heritage of contemporary law, economics, and organizational theory / S. Todd Lowry -- The trial of Homo economicus: what law and economics tells us about the development of economic imperialism / Steven G. Medema -- Putting a different spin on QALYs: beyond a sociological critique / Joshua Cohen -- A history of an intellectual arbitrage: the evolution of financial economics / Paul Harrison-- Methodological stance and consumption theory: a lesson in feminist methodology / Mary L. Hirschfeld -- Persuading by the numbers: the balance sheet in late-Victorian financial journalism / Timothy L. Alborn -- "What is truth" in capital theory? Five stories relevant to the evaluation of Frank H. Knight's contributions to the capital controversy / Ross B. Emmett -- Economists' responses to anomalies full-cost pricing versus preference reversals / Daniel M. Hausman and Philippe Mongin -- Responses to arbitrariness in contemporary economics / S. Abu Turab Rizvi -- New economics and its history: a Pickeringian view / John B. Davis.