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The Methodology of Economic Model Building Methodology after Samuelson Lawrence A. Boland ROUTLEDGE London and New York First published 1989 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Reprinted 1990, Paperback 1991  1989, 1991 2000 Lawrence A. Boland To JOSKE, my unofficial senior supervisor The orignal was printed in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire and simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge, then a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc., 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This version has been retypeset at Burnaby, B.C., December 2000, and then produced as an Adobe PDF file by Lawrence A. Boland. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Boland, Lawrence A. The methodology of economic model building: methodology after Samuelson. 1. Economic models. Design applications I. Title 330(?).0724 ISBN 0—415—00014—9 ISBN 0—415—06462—7 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Boland, Lawrence, A. The methodology of economic model building. Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Economics —Methodology. 2. Samuelson, Paul Anthony, 1915— . I. Title. HB131.B65 1988 330(?).0l(?)8 88—23919 ISBN 0—415—00014—9 ISBN 0—415—06462—7 Contents Acknowledgements Preface PROLOGUE Methodology vs Applied Methodology 1 1 Model building in modern economics 2 Methodology as a study of model-building methods 3 Applied methodology as a research programme PART I Applic