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The world in the model : how economists work and think / Mary S. Morgan.
Lippincott Library HB135 .M667 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Mary S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Mathematical models.
- Economists.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "This book describes a radical shift in the study of economic science, in which arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Modelling as a method of enquiry
- Model building: new recipes, ingredients and integration
- Imagining and imaging: creating a new model world
- Character making: ideal types, idealization and the art of caricature
- Metaphors and analogies: choosing the world of the model
- Questions and stories: capturing the heart of matters
- Model experiments?
- Simulation: bringing a microscope into economics
- Model situations, typical cases and exemplary narratives
- From the world in the model to the model in the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107002975
- 1107002974
- 9780521176194
- 0521176190
- OCLC:
- 723142435
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