TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warsh,David
TI  - Knowledge and the wealth of nations: a story of economic discovery 
SN  - 0393059960 (hardcover)
AV  - HB74.8 .W37 2006
U1  - 330.0973 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - W W Norton
KW  - Economics
KW  - Research
KW  - United States
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - History
KW  - Economists
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The discipline -- "It tells you where to carve the joints" -- What is a model? How does it work? -- The invisible hand and the pin factory -- How the dismal science got its name -- The underground river -- Spillovers and other accommodations -- The Keynesian revolution and the modern movement -- "Mathematics is a language" -- When economics went high-tech -- The residual and its critics -- The infinite-dimensional spreadsheet -- In which economists turn to rocket science, and "model" becomes a verb -- New departures -- "That's stupid!" -- In Hyde Park -- The U-turn -- The keyboard, the city, and the world -- Recombinations -- Crazy explanations -- At the ski lift -- "Endogenous technological change" -- Conjectures and refutations -- A short history of the cost of lighting -- The ultimate pin factory -- The invisible revolution -- Teaching economics
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005033677.html
ER  -