Friends,
March has arrived, and with it, I will be deleting three articles from the “teaching papers” section of my Academia page. If you wish to download copies, now is the last chance. They will be gone on Saturday.
To create effective and reasonably parsimonious theory, we abstract features of the world, choosing what to leave in maps and models while deciding what to leave out. Hal Varian (1997), professor emeritus of economics at Berkeley and chief economist at Google, discusses some of these issue in a useful article on how to build economic models.
Two very useful articles on these issues are Herbert Blumer’s (1969) discussion of the methodological perspective of symbolic interactionism, and an article by Robert Sutton and Barry Staw (1995) on what theory is not.
Blumer, Herbert. 1969. Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and Method. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., pp. 1-60.
Sutton, Robert I., and Barry M. Staw. 1995. "What Theory is Not." Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep.), pp. 371-384
Varian, Hal R. 1997. “How to Build and Economic Model in Your Spare Time.” The American Economist, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Fall), pp. 3-10.
You will find copies of these in the teaching papers section of my Academia page at URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
These articles will be accesible until Saturday, March 5.
Yours,
Ken Friedman
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