Bibliografía: p. 217-231.

Introduction: the use and misuse of economic ideas -- 1. What models do -- 2. The science of economic modeling -- 3. Navigating among models -- 4. Models and theories -- 5. When economics go wrong -- 6. Economics and its critics -- Epilogue: the twenty commandments.

In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline.
Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world—but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the discipline's much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science.