Book contents
- Managing Growth in Miniature
- Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
- Managing Growth in Miniature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 The Artifact and the Experimental Report
- 2 The Problematic of Growth and Productivity
- 3 Modeling the Economic System
- 4 Growth in Miniature
- 5 Model Talk
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
- Series page
Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2024
- Managing Growth in Miniature
- Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
- Managing Growth in Miniature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 The Artifact and the Experimental Report
- 2 The Problematic of Growth and Productivity
- 3 Modeling the Economic System
- 4 Growth in Miniature
- 5 Model Talk
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
- Series page
Summary
In the course of the 1960s, mathematical modeling gradually stabilized as the primary mode of academic economic research. The Epilogue sketches the fate of “the Solow model” as it consolidated as an epistemic standard for an intellectual practice that focused on refining mathematical artifacts and using them to estimate model-relationships in any given data sets. Building on the idea that it already developed a life of its own at Solow’s desk, the Epilogue inquires into the movements and transformations of the multifarious artifact. It was adapted, extended, and reduced in relation to specific local, institutional, and strategic arrangements in planning offices, universities, and research institutions. Sketching some of its trajectories in the field of growth accounting and macroeconomic management, I wonder how the model sedimented into knowledge infrastructures and how the model’s knowledge, as precarious as it might have been, was equipped with computability, prognostic potential, and policy effectiveness.
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- Managing Growth in MiniatureSolow's Model as an Artifact, pp. 215 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024