Mary S. Morgan — Modeling as a Method of Enquiry

Should read if you are into economics, philosophy of economics, methodology, philosophy of science, critical thinking, logic,  or epistemology.

h/t Brad DeLong

MODELLING AS A METHOD OF ENQUIRY
Mary S. Morgan
London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam

Forthcoming as Chapter 1 in

The World in the Model by Mary S. Morgan (Cambridge University Press)

Contents:

Part I: Changing the Practice of Economic Science 

1. From Laws to models, from words to object

2. The Naturalization of Modelling in Economics

3. Practical Reasoning Styles 

3.i Modelling as a Style of Reasoning 

3.ii Modelling as a Reasoning Style in Economics 

Part II: Making Models, Using Models

4. Making Models to Reason With: Forms, Rules and Resources 

4.i Giving Form 

4.ii Becoming Formal 

4.iii Resources for Reasoning With 

5. Modelling as a Method of Enquiry: The World in the Model, Models of the World 

6. Conclusion

also

Diane Coyle comments in Models, methods and madness at The Enlightened Economist