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001 2005033677
003 DLC
005 20051116140802.0
008 051116s2006 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780393059960 (hardcover)
020 $a0393059960 (hardcover)
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050 00 $aHB74.8$b.W37 2006
082 00 $a330.0973$222
100 1 $aWarsh, David.
245 10 $aKnowledge and the wealth of nations :$ba story of economic discovery /$cDavid Warsh.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bNorton,$cc2006.
263 $a0605
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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 -- In which 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.
650 0 $aEconomics$xResearch$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEconomics$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEconomics$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aEconomists$zUnited States.