Models, stories and the economic world

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Models and fiction (2009, background): “Hartmann (1999) and Morgan (2001) emphasise that stories and narratives play an important role in models, and Morgan (2004) stresses the importance of imagination in model building.”
Experiments versus models: New phenomena, inference and surprise (2005, background): “3 Although it is not their only role, as Gibbard and Varian pointed out as long ago as 1978, and Robert Sugden (2002) and I have separately discussed (Morgan 2001), mathematical models are also applied in casual manner to explain phenomena in the world.”
Incredible Worlds, Credible Results (2009, background): “As Sugden correctly points out, in economics at least, the credibility of models is often argued for by way of providing an empirical illustration or a "story" about how the mechanism at work in the model could be at work in the real world (see also Morgan 2001).”
If No Capacities Then No Credible Worlds. But Can Models Reveal Capacities? (2009, background): “We can, as Morgan (2001) urges, probe the models and we often do. We change the models, experiment on them, see what results as assumptions are varied in relevant ways.”