Knowledge and the wealth of nations
Subtitle: a story of economic discovery
By: David Warsh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton; W.W. Norton
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780393059960
Subjects: Economics -- Research -- United States; Economics -- Study and teaching -- United States; Economics -- United States -- History; Economists -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The discipline; title: "It tells you where to carve the joints"; title: What is a model? How does it work?; title: The invisible hand and the pin factory; title: How the dismal science got its name; title: The underground river; title: Spillovers and other accommodations; title: The Keynesian revolution and the modern movement; title: "Mathematics is a language"; title: When economics went high-tech; title: The residual and its critics; title: The infinite-dimensional spreadsheet; title: In which economists turn to rocket science, and "model" becomes a verb; title: New departures; title: "That's stupid!"; title: In Hyde Park; title: The U-turn; title: The keyboard, the city, and the world; title: Recombinations; title: Crazy explanations; title: At the ski lift; title: "Endogenous technological change"; title: Conjectures and refutations; title: A short history of the cost of lighting; title: The ultimate pin factory; title: The invisible revolution; title: Teaching economics.