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Knowledge and the wealth of nations: a story of economic discovery/ David Warsh

By: Warsh, DavidMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 2006Description: xxii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780393059960Subject(s): United States | Economics | Economics--Research | Economics--Study and teaching | EconomistsDDC classification: 330.973

Contents:

Preface xi Introduction xiv PART ONE 1. The Discipline 1 2. "It Tells You Where to Carve the Joints" 3. What Is a Model? How Does It Work? 4. The Invisible Hand and the Pin Factory 5. How the Dismal Science Got Its Name 6. The Underground River 7. Spillovers and Other Accommodations 8. The Keynesian Revolution and the Modern Movement 9. "Mathematics Is a Language" 10. When Economics Went High-Tech 11. The Residual and Its Critics 12. The Infinite-Dimensional Spreadsheet 13. In Which Economists Turn to Rocket Science, and "Model" Becomes a Verb PART TWO 14. New Departures 15. "That's Stupid!" 16. In Hyde Park 17. The U-Turn 18. The Keyboard, the City, and the World 19. Recombinations 20. Crazy Explanations 21. At the Ski Lift 22. "Endogenous Technological Change" 23. Conjectures and Refutations 24. A Short History of the Cost of Lighting 25. The Ultimate Pin Factory 26. The Invisible Revolution 27. Teaching Economics Conclusion Acknowledgments Index

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Preface xi
Introduction xiv
PART ONE
1. The Discipline 1
2. "It Tells You Where to Carve the Joints"
3. What Is a Model? How Does It Work?
4. The Invisible Hand and the Pin Factory
5. How the Dismal Science Got Its Name
6. The Underground River
7. Spillovers and Other Accommodations
8. The Keynesian Revolution and the Modern Movement
9. "Mathematics Is a Language"
10. When Economics Went High-Tech
11. The Residual and Its Critics
12. The Infinite-Dimensional Spreadsheet
13. In Which Economists Turn to Rocket Science,
and "Model" Becomes a Verb
PART TWO
14. New Departures
15. "That's Stupid!"
16. In Hyde Park
17. The U-Turn
18. The Keyboard, the City, and the World
19. Recombinations
20. Crazy Explanations
21. At the Ski Lift
22. "Endogenous Technological Change"
23. Conjectures and Refutations
24. A Short History of the Cost of Lighting
25. The Ultimate Pin Factory
26. The Invisible Revolution
27. Teaching Economics
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Index

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