The world in the model: how economists work and think
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes page
xii
Preface
xv
1
Modelling as a Method of Enquiry
1
PART I: CHANGING THE PRACTICE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE
1
1.
From Laws to Models, From Words to Objects
1
2.
The Naturalization of Modelling in Economics
6
3.
Practical Reasoning Styles
14
3.i Modelling as a Style of Reasoning
14
Злі
Modelling as a Reasoning Style in Economics
17
PART II: MAKING MODELS, USING MODELS
19
4.
Making Models to Reason With: Forms, Rules, and Resources
19
4.i Giving Form
20
4.Ü
Becoming Formal
26
4.ІІІ
Reasoning Resources
27
5.
Modelling as a Method of Enquiry: The World in the Model,
Models of the World
30
6.
Conclusion
37
2
Model-Making: New Recipes, Ingredients, and Integration
44
1. Ricardo,
The Modern Economist?
44
2. Ricardo,
His Economy, and the Economy of His Day
47
2.i David
Ricardo,
Esq.
47
2.Ü
Economics Matters, Experimental Farming Matters
51
3.
Constructing
Ricardos
Numerical Model Farm and Questions
of Distribution
56
3-і
The Numbers in
Ricardos
Principles and Experimental
Accounts
58
Злі
The Spade-Husbandry Debate
69
4. Ricardos
Model Farm and Model Farming
73
vii
viii Contents
4.i
Three Model Farms in One
74
4.Ü
A Model Farm that Worked According to
Ricardos
Economic Ideas
75
4.iii A Model of an Individual Farm in the Period
76
4.ÍV
A Model Farm for the Whole Agricultural Sector
78
5.
Model-Making: Creating New Recipes
79
5.i Ingredients
79
5.Ü
Fitting Things Together: Integration and Reasoning
Possibilities
81
Appendix
1:
Numerical Argument in
Ricardos 1815
Essay
83
3
Imagining and Imaging: Creating a New Model World
91
1.
Introduction
91
2.
Acts of Translation or a New Way of World-Making?
93
3.
Making the Mathematical Economic World in Models
96
4.
The Artists Space versus the Economists Space
98
5.
The History of the Edgeworth Box Diagram
-
as Told by Itself
106
5.i Edgeworth s Imagination and Image
107
5.Ü
Paretos Imagination and Images
115
6.
The World Newly Made in the Model: Questions of
Representation?
118
6.i Visualization
118
6.Ü
Newness
126
7.
Seeing the World in the Model
129
8.
Conclusion
131
4
Character Making: Ideal Types, Idealization, and the Art
of Caricature
136
1.
Introduction
136
2.
Characterizing Economic Man: Classical Economists Homo
Economicus
138
3.
Concept Forming: Weber s Ideal Types and
Mengers
Human
Economy
141
4.
Symbolic Abstraction: Jevons Calculating Man
145
5.
Exaggerating Qualities: Knights Slot-Machine Man
150
6.
Making a Cartoon into a Role Model: Rational Economic Man
153
7.
The Art of Caricature and Processes of Idealization
157
8.
Model Man s
CV:
De-Idealization and the Changing Roles
of Economic Man
164
5
Metaphors and Analogies: Choosing the World of the Model
172
1.
From Metaphors to Analogical Models
172
2.
The Newlyn-Phillips Machine
176
3.
The Machines Inventors: Walter Newlyn and Bill Phillips
184
Contents ix
4.
Inventing the Newlyn-Phillips Machine
187
Step
1:
Phillips chooses the analogy for his supply/demand model
(early
1949) 189
Step
2:
Newlyn designs the blueprint for a monetary circulation
machine (Easter
1949) 194
Step
3:
Phillips and Newlyn build the prototype Machine
(Summer
1949) 200
5.
Analogical Models and New Things
204
6
Questions and Stories: Capturing the Heart of Matters
217
1.
Introduction
217
2.
Stories to Shape Model Resources: Frischs Macro-Dynamic
Scheme
218
3.
Questions and Stories Capturing Keynes General Theory
221
3.i Modelling Keynes General Theory: Meade
222
Злі
Reasoning with Models: The External and Internal
Dynamics
225
З.ііі
Modelling Keynes General Theory:
Samuelson
228
4.
Finding New Dimensions and Telling New Stories
232
4.i Modelling Keynes General Theory: Hicks
232
4.Ü
Demonstrations, Variety, and Fruitfulness
236
5.
Capturing the Heart of the Matter with Narratives
239
5.i Narratives and Identity in the World of the Model
239
5.Ü
Model Narratives and Making Sense of the Economic
World
242
5.iii Narrative as a Testing Bed for Models
246
6.
Where Next?
251
7
Model Experiments?
256
1.
Introduction
256
2.
Experiments in the World of the Model
258
2.i Mangoldt and
Jenkin
259
2.Ü
Marshall
267
2.ІІІ
Conceptual Work: Defining Generic Categories
270
3.
Models in Laboratory Experiments
272
4.
Comparison: Model Experiments and Laboratory Experiments
277
4.i Controls and Demonstration
277
4.ii Experimental Validity and The Inference Gap
282
5.
Hybrids
288
5.i Virtually Experiments
288
5.Ü
The Status of Hybrids
292
6.
Materials Matter: Surprise versus Confoundment
293
x
Contents
8 Simulation:
Bringing a Microscope into Economics
301
1.
The Birth of a New Technology
301
2.
Simulation: Content and Context
304
3.
Shubik and Simulation
307
3.i Martin Shubiks History
307
Злі
Models, Simulated Environments, and Simulated
Behaviour
311
4.
Guy Orcutt
s
History and
Microsimulation
315
5.
Bringing a Microscope into Economics
320
5.i Introducing the Analogy
322
5.Ü
Matters of Scale and Kind
323
5.iii Specimens
=
Models
325
6.
How Do Simulations Work as Microscopes?
327
7.
The Observation-Inference Problem
331
8.
Conclusion
336
9
Model Situations, Typical Cases, and Exemplary Narratives
344
1.
Introduction
344
2.
War Games
345
3.
The Exemplary Narrative
348
3.i The Prisoners Dilemma: Collaborate or Defect?
348
З.іі
The Economists Dilemma: Individual Rationality or
Invisible Hand?
351
4.
The Commentators Dilemma: Fitting Together Situations,
Narratives, and Cases
357
4.i Reasoning about Situations
357
4.Ü
Explanatory Depth: The Roles of Narratives
361
4.iii Explanatory Breadth: Taxonomies, Kinds, and Cases
368
5.
Conclusion
372
10
From the World in the Model to the Model in the World
378
1.
Introduction
378
2.
Models: The New Working Objects of Economics
380
2.i Model Worlds and Working Objects
380
2.Ü
Small Worlds, Miniature Worlds, Compressed Worlds?
384
3.
The Work of Working Objects
387
3.i Materials for Describing and Theorizing
387
З.іі
Abstract Typical Representations and Model
Inductions
389
4.
Modelling: The New Way of Practising Economics
393
4.i Assumptions in Practices
394
4.Ü
Network of Models
396
4.iii Community Matters
399
Contents xi
5. Models in
the
World 400
5.i Models: New Instruments
for Acting in the
World 400
5.Ü
Seeing Small Worlds in the Big World
405
Index
413
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