Experiencing Life Through Modeling

Mary S. Morgan, Fellow of the British Academy and Overseas Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences holds chairs in the History and Philosophy of Economics at the London School of Economics and the University of Amsterdam. Her main books include The History of Econometric Ideas (1990) and Models as Mediators (1999, with Margaret Morrison), and now The World in the Model (2012). She has recently concluded a major team project that crosses over between the sciences and humanities: How Well Do Facts Travel? (2011, with Peter Howlett) and is currently “Rethinking Case Studies Across the Social Sciences” as a British Academy-Wolfson Research Professor.