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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
Economics rules
:
the rights and wrongs of the dismal science
Enthält:
The use and misuse of economic ideas
What models do
The science of economics modeling
Navigating among models
Models and theories
When economists go wrong
Economics and its critics
The twenty commandments
Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline. Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world--but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the discipline's much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science. Too often, however, economists mistake a model for the model that applies everywhere and at all times