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Knowledge and the wealth of nations : a story of economic discovery
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Knowledge and the wealth of nations : a story of economic discovery

Author: David Warsh
Publisher: New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2007.
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In 1980, Paul Romer solved a problem originally identified by Adam Smith and thereby ushered in a new understanding of economic growth. Using Romer's discovery as a window, this title looks out over  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Warsh
ISBN: 0393329887 9780393329889
OCLC Number: 424042391
Notes: Originally published: 2006.
DOCUMENT EN COMMANDE OU EN TRAITEMENT.
Description: xxii, 435 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: 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 --
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.
Responsibility: David Warsh.

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