LEADER 05869nam 22007212 450 001 9910462752003321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-316-08850-2 010 $a1-139-56381-5 010 $a1-283-57512-4 010 $a1-139-02618-6 010 $a1-139-55050-0 010 $a9786613887573 010 $a1-139-55175-2 010 $a1-139-55546-4 010 $a1-139-54925-1 010 $a1-139-55421-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234770 035 $a(EBL)989183 035 $a(OCoLC)821889743 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383278 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10722083 035 $a(PQKB)11769511 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139026185 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC989183 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL989183 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10591049 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL388757 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234770 100 $a20110218d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe world in the model $ehow economists work and think /$fMary S. Morgan$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 421 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-17619-0 311 $a1-107-00297-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; THE WORLD IN THE MODEL; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures, Tables, and Boxes; Preface; 1 Modelling as a Method of Enquiry; PART I: CHANGING THE PRACTICE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE; 1. From Laws to Models, From Words to Objects; 2. The Naturalization of Modelling in Economics; 3. Practical Reasoning Styles; 3.i Modelling as a Style of Reasoning; 3.ii Modelling as a Reasoning Style in Economics; PART II: MAKING MODELS, USING MODELS; 4. Making Models to Reason With: Forms, Rules, and Resources; 4.i Giving Form; 4.ii Becoming Formal; 4.iii Reasoning Resources 327 $a5. Modelling as a Method of Enquiry: The World in the Model, Models of the World6. Conclusion; 2 Model-Making: New Recipes, Ingredients, and Integration; 1. Ricardo, the "Modern" Economist?; 2. Ricardo, His Economy, and the Economy of His Day; 2.i David Ricardo, Esq.; 2.ii Economics Matters, Experimental Farming Matters; 3. Constructing Ricardo's Numerical Model Farm and Questions of Distribution; 3.i The Numbers in Ricardo's Principles and Experimental Accounts; 3.ii The Spade-Husbandry Debate; 4. Ricardo's Model Farm and Model Farming; 4.i Three Model Farms in One 327 $a4.ii A Model Farm that Worked According to Ricardo's Economic Ideas4.iii A Model of an Individual Farm in the Period; 4.iv A Model Farm for the Whole Agricultural Sector; 5. Model-Making: Creating New Recipes; 5.i Ingredients; 5.ii Fitting Things Together: Integration and Reasoning Possibilities; 3 Imagining and Imaging: Creating a New Model World; 1. Introduction; 2. Acts of Translation or a New Way of World-Making?; 3. Making the Mathematical Economic World in Models; 4. The Artist's Space versus the Economist's Space; 5. The History of the Edgeworth Box Diagram - as Told by Itself 327 $a5.i Edgeworth's Imagination and Image5.ii Pareto's Imagination and Images; 6. The World Newly Made in the Model: Questions of Representation?; 6.i Visualization; 6.ii Newness; 7. Seeing the World in the Model; 8. Conclusion; 4 Character Making: Ideal Types, Idealization, and the Art of Caricature; 1. Introduction; 2. Characterizing Economic Man: Classical Economists' Homo Economicus; 3. Concept Forming: Weber's Ideal Types and Menger's Human Economy; 4. Symbolic Abstraction: Jevons' Calculating Man; 5. Exaggerating Qualities: Knight's Slot-Machine Man 327 $a6. Making a Cartoon into a Role Model: Rational Economic Man7. The Art of Caricature and Processes of Idealization; 8. Model Man's CV: De-Idealization and the Changing Roles of Economic Man; 5 Metaphors and Analogies: Choosing the World of the Model; 1. From Metaphors to Analogical Models; 2. The Newlyn-Phillips Machine; 3. The Machine's Inventors: Walter Newlyn and Bill Phillips; 4. Inventing the Newlyn-Phillips Machine; Step 1: Phillips chooses the analogy for his supply/demand model (early 1949); Step 2: Newlyn designs the blueprint for a monetary circulation machine (Easter 1949) 327 $aStep 3: Phillips and Newlyn build the prototype Machine (Summer 1949) 330 $aDuring the last two centuries, the way economic science is done has changed radically: it has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. This book describes and analyses that change - both historically and philosophically - using a series of case studies to illuminate the nature and the implications of these changes. It is not a technical book; it is written for the intelligent person who wants to understand how economics works from the inside out. This book will be of interest to economists and science studies scholars (historians, sociologists and philosophers of science). But it also aims at a wider readership in the public intellectual sphere, building on the current interest in all things economic and on the recent failure of the so-called economic model, which has shaped our beliefs and the world we live in. 606 $aEconomics$xMathematical models 606 $aEconomists 615 0$aEconomics$xMathematical models. 615 0$aEconomists. 676 $a330.01/5195 700 $aMorgan$b Mary S.$0122965 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462752003321 996 $aThe world in the model$92013911 997 $aUNINA