Donald W. Katzner

Models, Mathematics, and Methodology in Economic Explanation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781108418775
• ISBN-10: 1108418775
• Artikelnr.: 48430254

Autorenporträt

Donald W. Katzner is Professor of Economics and former Department Chair at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His published research has spanned several areas, including: microeconomic and general equilibrium theory; the methodology of building models and of analyzing phenomena when measures of appropriate variables are neither available nor reasonably constructible; the analysis of uncertain economic phenomena when it is inappropriate to employ notions of probability; the impact of culture on economic behavior; and organizational issues within the economic firm.

Inhaltsangabe

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.