Warsh, David.

Knowledge and the wealth of nations: a story of economic discovery/ David Warsh - New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 2006. - xxii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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