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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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"A fascinating new book..." The Economist "A fascinating journey through the world of economic thought... If you like reading stories of high intellectual drama, if you want to know the origin of ideas that, as Keynes said, 'are dangerous for good or evil,' this book is for you." Paul Krugman, The New York Times Book Review "...perfectly riveting... In what is, at heart, an excellent intellectual history, Warsh shows how the ideas of innovation and economic growth began with Adam Smith and bubbled up only to be submerged again and again." Tim Harford, Financial Times" Read more...
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