Marcel Boumans is Associate Professor Methodology and History of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. His studies of (empirical) economic research practices focus on three topics: Measurement, Modeling, and Application of mathematical concepts and techniques, on which he published recently a book How Economists Model the World into Numbers (2005, Routledge).

Marcel Boumans is Associate Professor Methodology and History of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. His studies of (empirical) economic research practices focus on three topics: Measurement, Modeling, and Application of mathematical concepts and techniques, on which he published recently a book How Economists Model the World into Numbers (2005, Routledge).

Marcel Boumans is Associate Professor Methodology and History of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. His studies of (empirical) economic research practices focus on three topics: Measurement, Modeling, and Application of mathematical concepts and techniques, on which he published recently a book How Economists Model the World into Numbers (2005, Routledge).