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The world in the model : how economists work and think /

"This book describes a radical shift in the study of economic science, in which arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Mary S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Economics > Mathematical models.
Economists.
economists.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781139549257
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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