Models, Mathematics, and Methodology in Economic Explanation

ISBN-13: 9781108418775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 258 str.

Donald W. Katzner

Opis

This book provides a practitioner's foundation for the process of explanatory model building that deconstructs the process into five stages.

Recenzje

'Katzner has written an original and important contribution to the literature on the methodology of economic modeling from a perspective that is seldom represented.' D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound, Washington

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Science and economics; 2. Economic models and explanation; 3. The stages of model building in economics; 4. Models and mathematics; 5. Models and measurement (or lack thereof); 6. Issues relating to the construction of models from scratch; 7. An example: the efficiency of organizational forms; 8. The implicit assumption requirements of later-stage model building; 9. Ordinality and the adequacy of analytic specification; 10. Categories of models; 11. Conclusion.