Managing Growth in Miniature

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-316-51518-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

Reihe: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics

Managing Growth in Miniature explores the history of the way economists think about growth. It focuses on the period between the 1930s and 1960s, tracing the development of the famed 'Solow growth model,' one of the central mathematical models in postwar economics. It argues that models are not simply 'efficient tools' providing answers to the problems of economic theory and governance. The Solow model's various uses and interpretations related not only to the ways it made things (in)visible, excluded questions, and suggested actions. Its 'success' and effects ultimately also pertained to its fundamental ambiguities. Attending to the concrete sides of economic abstractions, this book provides a richly layered and accessible account of the forms of knowledge that shaped the predominant notion of 'economic growth' and ideas of how to govern it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halsmayer, Verena

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

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 Autor(innen)

Halsmayer, Verena
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.