Verena Halsmayer is a senior research and teaching fellow (Oberassistentin) at the University of Lucerne's Chair for Science Studies. Her dissertation, on which this book is loosely based, received the Best Dissertation Award of the Faculty of Historical Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.

'Our world is shaped not only by economics, but also by economic models. What are the politics of models - and how did they shape the postwar hegemony of economic growth? To answer these questions, Managing Growth in Miniature presents an engaging, intriguing, and rigorously researched history of Solow's neoclassical growth model, showing the societal power behind the abstractions and practices of economic modeling.' Matthias Schmelzer, author of The Hegemony of Growth and co-author of The Future is Degrowth

• Introduction; 1. The artifact and the experimental report; 2. The problematic of growth and productivity; 3. Modeling the economic system; 4. Growth en miniature; 5. Model talk; Epilogue.