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Behind the Model: A Constructive Critique of Economic Modeling - Strategies for Social Inquiry Spiegler, Peter (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Behind the Model: A Constructive Critique of Economic Modeling - Strategies for Social Inquiry
Spiegler, Peter (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
This ambitious book reveals how formal models are constructed in economics. Ranging across economics, philosophy, and social science methods, and drawing on examples, including the recent financial crisis, Behind the Model will be of interest to anyone who has wondered how economics works - and why it sometimes fails.
230 pages, 5 b/w illus. 5 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 3, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107069664 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 254 × 181 × 15 mm · 616 g |
| Language | English |