CHAPTER XV. Some Mechanical Analogies

SOME MECHANICAL ANALOGIES

Mechanical analogies of limited use in revealing full complexity of social control, but of use for certain purposes--Our argument can be put, in part, in terms of mechanical analogies--Transformations of social forces--Illustrations--Marginal equilibria among social forces--Illustrations--Social forces of control take different forms under different conditions--Mechanical analogies useful enough for economic price-analysis--Our thesis involves no radical revision of economic methodology--It is rather concerned with interpretation and validation of economic methodology 156