Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures, Tables, and Boxes
- Preface
- 1 Modelling as a Method of Enquiry
- 2 Model-Making: New Recipes, Ingredients, and Integration
- 3 Imagining and Imaging: Creating a New Model World
- 4 Character Making: Ideal Types, Idealization, and the Art of Caricature
- 5 Metaphors and Analogies: Choosing the World of the Model
- 6 Questions and Stories: Capturing the Heart of Matters
- 7 Model Experiments?
- 8 Simulation: Bringing a Microscope into Economics
- 9 Model Situations, Typical Cases, and Exemplary Narratives
- 10 From the World in the Model to the Model in the World
- Index
- Plate Section
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures, Tables, and Boxes
- Preface
- 1 Modelling as a Method of Enquiry
- 2 Model-Making: New Recipes, Ingredients, and Integration
- 3 Imagining and Imaging: Creating a New Model World
- 4 Character Making: Ideal Types, Idealization, and the Art of Caricature
- 5 Metaphors and Analogies: Choosing the World of the Model
- 6 Questions and Stories: Capturing the Heart of Matters
- 7 Model Experiments?
- 8 Simulation: Bringing a Microscope into Economics
- 9 Model Situations, Typical Cases, and Exemplary Narratives
- 10 From the World in the Model to the Model in the World
- Index
- Plate Section
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The World in the ModelHow Economists Work and Think, pp. vii - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012