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a story of economic discovery

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Norton, W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
426

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Subjects

Economists, Economics, Research, Study and teaching, History, Economics, study and teaching, Economics, research, Economics, history, New York Times reviewed, Economia, Investigacion, Ensenanza, Historia, Economistas

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Cover of: Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
May 14, 2007, W. W. Norton
in English
Cover of: Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
2007, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
Cover of: Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
May 14, 2007, W. W. Norton
in English
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
330.0973
Library of Congress
HB74.8 .W37 2006, HB74.8.W37 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
426

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OL3417376M
Internet Archive
knowledgewealtho00wars
ISBN 10
0393059960
ISBN 13
9780393059960
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2005033677
OCLC/WorldCat
62322444
Library Thing
726089
Goodreads
115595

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