The world in the model
Subtitle: how economists work and think
By: Mary S. Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107002975
Subjects: Mathematical models; Economics; Economists
Description: "This book describes a radical shift in the study of economic science, in which arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Modelling as a method of enquiry; 2. Model building: new recipes, ingredients and integration; 3. Imagining and imaging: creating a new model world; 4. Character making: ideal types, idealization and the art of caricature; 5. Metaphors and analogies: choosing the world of the model; 6. Questions and stories: capturing the heart of matters; 7. Model experiments?; 8. Simulating: taking a microscope to economics; 9. Model situations, typical cases and exemplary narratives; 10. From the world in the model to the model in the world.