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How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time by Hal R. Varian UC Berkeley December 1994 Current version: June 11, 1997 Abstract. This is an essay for Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, edited by Michael Szenberg, University of Michigan Press, 1997. Keywords. Address. Hal R. Varian, Dean, School of Information Mangement and Systems, UC ~ Berkeley. Web page hal 北斗成功社区 BeiDouW 教育音视频/电子书/实用资料文档/励志歌曲影视 1/18 How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time Hal R. Varian Most of my work in economics involves constructing theoretical models. Over the years, I have developed some ways of doing this that may be worth describing to those who aspire to practice this art. In reality the process is much more haphazard than my description would suggestthe model of research that I describe is an idealization of reality, much like the economic models that I create. But there is probably enough connection with reality to make the description usefulwhich I hope is also true for my economic models. 1. Getting ideas The first step is to get an idea. This is not all that hard to do. The tricky part is to get a good idea. The way you do this is to come up with lots and lots of ideas and throw out all the ones that aren’t good. But where to get ideas, that’s the question. Most graduate students are convinced that the way you get ideas is to read journal articles. But in my experience journals really aren’t a very good source of original ideas. You can get lots of things from journal articlestechnique, insight, even truth. But most o