Methodology and Tacit Knowledge: Two Experiments in Econometrics

by Mary Susanna Morgan

Book Overview

"Econometrics textbooks see their subject as a set of techniques; Magnus and Morgan see it as a set of practices. A combination of controlled experiment and anthropology of science, Methodology and Tacit Knowledge gives a rare inside view of how econometricians work, why econometrics is an art and not a set of simple recipes, and why, like all artists, econometricians differ in their techniques and finished works. This is economic methodology at its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471982970
• ISBN13: 9780471982975
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.9"