[10] A note to the uninitiated: the term “economics” was coined at the end of the nineteenth century by Alfred Marshall, who thought that “political economy” was insufficiently scientific, and that a suffix of “ics” would make it sound much more respectable, like mathematics and physics...
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We don't think about a dog's data and how we might manipulate it—we think about a dog as a thing in the world, what it is like and what it does. Building Models If we are to manage complexity, we must create a model of the universe. The goal of the model is to create a ...