World in the model : how economists work and think, The
Economics Economists Economics -- Mathematical models e-böcker
Cambridge University Press
2012
EISBN 9780521176194
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.
"This book describes a radical shift in the study of economic science, in which arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models"--
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.
"This book describes a radical shift in the study of economic science, in which arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models"--
