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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