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30 - History
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Book title
The world in the model: how economists work and think
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Cambridge University Press
ISBN of book
9781107002975
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Proposed double-weighted
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Double-weighted statement
Morgan’s The World in the Model offers an original account of how economists “work and think” in building and using models. Eight detailed historical case studies provide the main meat of the book. Each also illuminates different philosophical problems of modelling as a scientific method. The research, which extended over more than a decade, thus involved not only considerable historical work, but extensive engagement with recent philosophy of science. In outcome, Morgan develops a complex thesis - in which philosophical arguments are carried along, and integrated within, historical discussions - to explain changes in economic science over the last 100 years.
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English abstract
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