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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morgan, Mary S.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Economics > Mathematical models. Economists. Science économique. Modèles économiques. Modèles mathématiques. Economistes. Pensée économique. Wirtschaftstheorie. Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Mathematisches Modell. Mathematische Modellierung. Wissenschaftsforschung. Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Volkswirtschaftslehre.

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.