Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know?

Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know?
ISBN-10
0262692791
ISBN-13
9780262692793
Category
Econometric models
Pages
122
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
MIT Press
Author
John Sutton

Description

John Sutton explores what he calls the "standard paradigm" that lies at the heart of economic model building, whose roots go back a century to the work of Alfred Marshall.

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