| Description |
xvii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economics -- Mathematical models.
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Economists.
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| LC no. |
2011018364 |
| ISBN |
9781107002975 (hardback) |
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1107002974 (hardback) |
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9780521176194 (paperback) |
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0521176190 (paperback) |
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