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The world in the model and the model in the world

Mary S. Morgan: The world in the model: How economists work and think. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xvii+421pp, $39.99 PB

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Thanks for comments to Theodore Arabatzis, Marcel Boumans and Wade Hands.

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Davis, J.B. The world in the model and the model in the world. Metascience 23, 385–390 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9842-y

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