Managing Growth in Miniature - Solow''s Model As an Artifact

This book offers the first richly layered and contextualized history of the famed 'Solow model' between the 1930s and the 1960s. Attending to the concrete sides of economic abstractions, it provides an accessible account of the forms of knowledge that shaped the predominant notion of 'economic growth' and its discontents.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The artifact and the experimental report; 2. The problematic of growth and productivity; 3. Modeling the economic system; 4. Growth en miniature; 5. Model talk; Epilogue.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Verena Halsmayer is a senior research and teaching fellow (Oberassistentin) at the University of Lucerne's Chair for Science Studies. Her dissertation, on which this book is loosely based, received the Best Dissertation Award of the Faculty of Historical Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.

Zusammenfassung

This book offers the first richly layered and contextualized history of the famed 'Solow model' between the 1930s and the 1960s. Attending to the concrete sides of economic abstractions, it provides an accessible account of the forms of knowledge that shaped the predominant notion of 'economic growth' and its discontents.

Vorwort

An accessible and contextualized history of the famed 'Solow model' and the knowledge that shaped our notion of 'economic growth'.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Verena Halsmayer, Verena (University of Lucerne) Halsmayer
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781316515181
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51518-1
• Seiten: 292
• Serie: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; SCIENCE / History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Economic history, History of Science, economic growth