Mary S. Morgan

David F. Hendry

In this compelling book, David Hendry and Mary Morgan bring together the classic papers of the pioneer econometricians, some of which have never been published before. Together, these papers form the foundations of econometric thought. They are essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the aims, method and methodology of econometrics and the development of this statistical approach in economics. An editorial commentary places the readings in their historical context and indicates the continuing relevance of these early, yet highly sophisticated, works for current econometric analysis.

The Foundations of Econometric Analysis

Quentin Skinner

Margaret Morrison

Edited collection examining the ways in which models are used in modern science.

Perspectives on Natural and Social Science

Models as Mediators

Kim M. Hajek

Dominic J. Berry

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

Narrative Science

Morgan Mary S.

This book illustrates how economists first learnt to harness statistical methods to measure and test the 'laws' of economics.

The History of Econometric Ideas

London School of Economics

This insightful, evocative, and sumptuous volume brings Charles Booth's landmark survey of late nineteenth-century London to a new audience.

Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps

Describes the radical shift in the study of economic science; where arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models.

How Economists Work and Think

The World in the Model

During the last two centuries, the way economic science is done has changed radically: it has become a social science based on mathematical models in place of words. This book describes and analyses that change - both historically and philosophically - using a series of case studies to illuminate the nature and the implications of these changes. It is not a technical book; it is written for the intelligent person who wants to understand how economics works from the inside out. This book will be of interest to economists and science studies scholars (historians, sociologists and philosophers of science). But it also aims at a wider readership in the public intellectual sphere, building on the current interest in all things economic and on the recent failure of the so-called economic model, which has shaped our beliefs and the world we live in.

Peter Howlett

This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of travelling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the bland and rather boring but useful objects that scientists and humanists produce and fit together to make narratives, arguments and evidence. Rather, their extraordinary abilities to travel well shows when, how and why facts can be used to build further knowledge beyond and away from their sites of original production and intended use.

Mary S. Morgan

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