| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 421 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Economics -- Mathematical models.
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Economists.
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economists.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Econometrics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Statistics.
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Economics -- Mathematical models
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Economists
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139549257 |
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1139549251 |
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9781139026185 |
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1139026186 |
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9781139550505 |
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1139550500 |
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9781139551755 |
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1139551752 |
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9780521176194 |
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0521176190 |
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9786613887573 |
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6613887579 |
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1139555464 |
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9781139555463 |
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9781139554213 |
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1139554212 |
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9781139554213 |
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1316088502 |
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9781316088500 |
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1139563815 |
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9781139563819 |
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1283575124 |
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9781283575126 |
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