CONTENIDO: The discipline.-- "It tells you where to carve the joints".-- What is a model? how does it work?.-- The invisible hand and the pin factory.-- How the dismal science got its name.-- The underground river.-- Spillovers and other accommodations.-- The Keynesian revolution and the modern movement.-- "Mathematics is a language".-- When economics went high-tech.-- The residual and its critics.-- The infinite-dimensional spreadsheet.-- Economists turn to rocket science, and "model" becomes a verb.-- New departures.-- "That's stupid!".-- In Hyde Park.-- The u-turn.-- The keyboard, the city, and the world.-- Recombinations.-- Crazy explanations.-- At the ski lift.-- "Endogenous technological change".-- Conjectures and refutations.-- A short history of the cost of lighting.-- The ultimate pin factory.-- The invisible revolution.-- Teaching economics .