I don't know how I missed reading this paper earlier, but a conversation this past week helped me land up on a lovely little paper written by Hal Varian, called How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time. The paper was written in 1997, but was published again in the AER in 2016, and the editor's introduction is worth reading, excerpted below:
Read, Listen, and Observe. Then Write.
I don't know how I missed reading this paper earlier, but a conversation this past week helped me land up on a lovely little paper written by Hal Varian, called How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time. The paper was written in 1997, but was published again in the AER in 2016, and the editor's introduction is worth reading, excerpted below: