Knowledge and the wealth of nations : a story of economic discovery / David Warsh.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: First editionDescription: xxii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393059960
- 9780393059960
- 330.0973 22
- HB74.8 .W37 2006
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Includes index.
The discipline -- "It tells you where to carve the joints" -- What is a model? How does it work? -- The invisible hand and the pin factory -- How the dismal science got its name -- The underground river -- Spillovers and other accommodations -- The Keynesian revolution and the modern movement -- "Mathematics is a language" -- When economics went high-tech -- The residual and its critics -- The infinite-dimensional spreadsheet -- In which economists turn to rocket science, and "model" becomes a verb -- New departures -- "That's stupid!" -- In Hyde Park -- The U-turn -- The keyboard, the city, and the world -- Recombinations -- Crazy explanations -- At the ski lift -- "Endogenous technological change" -- Conjectures and refutations -- A short history of the cost of lighting -- The ultimate pin factory -- The invisible revolution -- Teaching economics.
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