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The world in the model : how economists work and think / / Mary S. Morgan [[electronic resource]]
| The world in the model : how economists work and think / / Mary S. Morgan [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Morgan Mary S. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 330.01/5195 |
| Soggetto topico |
Economics - Mathematical models
Economists |
| ISBN |
1-316-08850-2
1-139-56381-5 1-283-57512-4 1-139-02618-6 1-139-55050-0 9786613887573 1-139-55175-2 1-139-55546-4 1-139-54925-1 1-139-55421-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5. 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 4.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 5.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 6. 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) Step 3: Phillips and Newlyn build the prototype Machine (Summer 1949) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462752003321 |
Morgan Mary S.
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The world in the model : how economists work and think / / Mary S. Morgan [[electronic resource]]
| The world in the model : how economists work and think / / Mary S. Morgan [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Morgan Mary S. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 330.01/5195 |
| Soggetto topico |
Economics - Mathematical models
Economists |
| ISBN |
1-316-08850-2
1-139-56381-5 1-283-57512-4 1-139-02618-6 1-139-55050-0 9786613887573 1-139-55175-2 1-139-55546-4 1-139-54925-1 1-139-55421-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5. 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 4.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 5.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 6. 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) Step 3: Phillips and Newlyn build the prototype Machine (Summer 1949) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785519003321 |
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Morgan Mary S.
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The world in the model : how economists work and think / / Mary S. Morgan [[electronic resource]]
| The world in the model : how economists work and think / / Mary S. Morgan [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Morgan Mary S. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 330.01/5195 |
| Soggetto topico |
Economics - Mathematical models
Economists |
| ISBN |
1-316-08850-2
1-139-56381-5 1-283-57512-4 1-139-02618-6 1-139-55050-0 9786613887573 1-139-55175-2 1-139-55546-4 1-139-54925-1 1-139-55421-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5. 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 4.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 5.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 6. 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) Step 3: Phillips and Newlyn build the prototype Machine (Summer 1949) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822655203321 |
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Morgan Mary S.
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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