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Knowledge and the wealth of nations : a story of economic discovery
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Title
Knowledge and the wealth of nations : a story of economic discovery / David Warsh.
ISBN
0393059960 (hardcover)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
Physical Description
xxii, 426 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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