http://www.amazon.com/Models-Behaving-Badly-Confusing-Illusion-Reality-Disaster/dp/1439164983 http://www.amazon.com/Models-Behaving-Badly-Confusing-Illusi... "

http://www.amazon.com/Models-Behaving-Badly-Confusing-Illusion-Reality-Disaster/dp/1439164983 http://www.amazon.com/Models-Behaving-Badly-Confusing-Illusi... "A model...[is] really much more of a metaphor, an attempt to find an analogy between something you want to understand and something to really do understand, either heuristically or by a theory." from http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/derman_on_theor.html http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/derman_on_theor.htm... - very good interview.