The "bookkeeping" approach is nicely presented in Mirowski's (1991) book:
http://books.google.com/books?id=rmVhZnHId-oC More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics Philip Mirowski <http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Philip+Mirowski%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=10> Cambridge University Press, 1991 ISBN 0521426898, 9780521426893 In my view, one should avoid, or at least be aware of, using one paradigm to mend the failings of another. The Darwinian literature is full of this, appealing now and then to one or another science when pure Selectionism is clearly inadequate. Rather, I believe that paradigms should be deployed in parallel, as a check on each other, to the extent possible. Authors with a biological background tend to present Information as an add-on to bio-chemistry or ecology. These are partial theories of Information, possibly useful to researchers in those fields, but avoiding the implications of a truly universal theory of Information. Malcolm Dean
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