Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index.
Introduction -- Economics: inductive or deductive science? -- Economics and statistics -- Business-cycle research: the rise of modelling -- John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen: the dramatist and the model-builder -- Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric Research: structural models and "as if" methodology -- Modelling between fact and fiction: thought experiments in economics -- Experimentation in economics -- Simulation with models -- Economics as science.