Economic Methodology : A Historical Introduction (Paperback)

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