aith in divin- ity via Genesis. Even Newton relied upon this source for understanding the origin of light. After 1862, however, everything changed. James Clerk Maxwell was deeply religious, and like Newton before him, his faith sometimes led him to make strange assertions about na- ture. Nevertheless, like

rate the predictions. The contrast between physics and economics here is stark. Alongside Ludwig Boltzmann, the work in this field was pioneered by James Clerk Maxwell. In physics Maxwell was 'Mr field theory'. He started with the same Newtonian field theories that were adopted by the neoclassicals. He exp