Philip Mirowski

Philip Mirowski (born 21 August 1951, Jackson, Michigan) is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame (Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics and Policy Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science). He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1979 and is a Director of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values.

Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow of the Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame. He is the author of, among others, Machine Dreams (2002), The Effortless Economy of Science. (2004), More Heat than Light (1989), Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2013), and ScienceMart: privatizing American science (2011). 

He is the editor of Agreement on Demand (2006) and The Road from Mont Pèlerin: the making of the neoliberal thought collective (2009) and Building Chicago Economics (2011), among other works. Outside of ongoing research on the history and analysis of the commercialization of science, he is also working on a computational complexity approach to the crisis and a new book on the history of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics, sometimes called the Nobel. 

He was awarded the Ludwig Fleck Prize from 4S in 2006 and had been visiting professor at Yale, Oxford, NYU, Duke, Paris, the University of Technology-Sydney, and the University of Amsterdam.