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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"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.