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Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
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Table of 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
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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