Beschreibung:
Ever since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the discipline's disposal have grown ever more sophisticated. This book provides n historical introduction to the methodology of economics through the eyes of political economists.
1. Introduction 2. Economics: Inductive or deductive science? 3. Economics and Statistics 4. Business-Cycle Research: The rise of modelling 5. John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen: The dramatist and the model-builder 6. Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric Research: Structural models and 'as if' methodology 7. Modelling Between Fact and Fiction: Thought experiments in economics 8. Experimentation in Economics 9. Simulation with Models 10. Economics as Science 11. Further Reading