Review of Peter Spiegler's Behind the model: a constructive critique of economic modelling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015. 201pp.

Nicolas Wüthrich is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. At present, he is visiting the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He is interested in robustness reasoning as it is used across different scientific and policy-making domains. He has published on the general problem of theory choice as well as uncertainty in climate science.