Following Artifacts
探讨了在当代经济学史研究中“追随人工制品”的史学策略，即追踪模型作为人工制品的形式与意义变化、它们激发的思想与想象世界，以及部分模型如何稳定为学术和政策领域的经济推理基础设施，而另一些则未能流通或消失。
The essay discusses the historiographical strategy of “following artifacts” in the history of contemporary economics. Following models as artifacts means (1) to follow the shifts and changes in their form and meaning; (2) to follow the ideas, theories, fictions, and imaginary worlds they provoke; and (3) to investigate the ways in which some of them stabilize and remain as infrastructures of economic reasoning in academic and policy realms, as well as the ways in which some of them either do not circulate at all or simply get lost. Such perspectives regarding the complexity and dynamics of knowledge creation lead out of the narrower history of disciplinary knowledge and, moreover, direct attention to different temporal scales.