1. Introduction -- 2. Economics : inductive or deductive science? -- 3. Economics and statistics -- 4. Business-cycle research : the rise of modelling -- 5. John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen : the dramatist and the model-builder -- 6. Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric Research : structural models and "as if" methodology -- 7. Modelling between fact and fiction : thought experiments in economics -- 8. Experimentation in economics -- 9. Simulation with models -- 10. Economics as science
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Translated from the Dutch
This translation originally published in print: 2014