... of tools devised by economics and statistics, the central part of the essay focuses on Corrado Gini (1884–1965). He was Italy's leading econometrician and the main reference of the international network of econometricians until the 1940s. Other Italian members of the newly formed Econometric Society...

... and welfare issues. Thereby, the article investigates how econometrics was anchored in a tension between being stated as a tool of knowledge defined within a reference to positivism on the one hand, and as a mean of changing society and creating a better world on the other. Three main issues of debate can...

...Francisco Louçã; Sofia Terlica Two defining moments in the history of econometrics and in that of the Econometric Society are discussed in this essay. The first is the founding of the society and the initial skirmishes over the criteria for selecting its fellows, who were to represent the best...

...Olav Bjerkholt; Ariane Dupont Ragnar Frisch is well known for his contribution to econometrics as a new discipline in the 1930s and for his role in founding of the Econometric Society and as editor of Econometrica . Despite his active role within the econometrics community, it may be argued...

... and correspondence. This essay gives a brief overview of Frisch's scientific archive and exhibits from his search for econometric methods. It also sets out a selection of letters exchanged between Frisch and other leading members of the Econometric Society. Our contention is that Frisch's role in the history...

... of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Along the way, the article traces Wilson’s crucial role in the origins of the Econometric Society and sheds new light on the constitution of the econometric movement. Second, the article reconstructs Wilson’s leadership in promoting and establishing...

... members of the Econometric Society (established 1930) to Japan were instrumental in promoting statistical studies and inspiring Japanese students to study abroad. Eiichi Sugimoto was trained in Berlin and drew a shifting demand curve for rice over time in a three-dimensional space in 1935. After World War...

... Advanced econometric analysis, Airy, G. B., 264 Japan, 202–5 Åkerman, Johan Henryk Agricultural Adjustment Act of and Econometric Society fellows, 1933, 247 75–76 Agricultural Adjustment...

... back to the forefront of the fi eld. An opportunity arose when the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society was scheduled to be held at Duke University in June 2007. Roy Weintraub suggested that we organize a session, and we put out a call for papers. The papers...

... the Econometric Society and Econometrica are almost completely neglected. This puts emphasis on the different local traditions, where it would seem more appropriate to consider developments since the start of the Econometric Society in 1930 and Econo- metrica in 1933 as dominated by worldwide...

.... BEFORE1930 it was almost impossible to publish an econometric ar- ticle in a professional journal, as witness C. F. ROOS'Sattempt to publish his original paper on economic fluctuations and crises [cf. 20, p. xiii Since the founding of the Econometric Society in December 1930 and the first...

... international associations and journals like the Econometric Society and Econometrica are almost completely neglected. This puts emphasis on the different local traditions, where it would seem more appropriate to consider developments since the start of the Econometric Society in 1930 and Econo...

... ( 4 ): 399 – 421 . Bernstein Michael . 2001 . A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America . Princeton : Princeton University Press . Bjerkholt Olav . 2014 . “Econometric Society 1930: How It Got Founded.” SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 2532106...

... Ideas 2009 ( 3 ): 103 – 26 . Bjerkholt Olav . 2015a . “Trygve Haavelmo at the Cowles Commission,” in “Haavelmo Memorial Issue: Part One” , Econometric Theory 31 : 1 – 84 . Bjerkholt Olav . 2015b . “ How It All Began: The First Econometric Society Meeting, Lausanne, September...

... between Different Definitions of Complementary and Competitive Goods. Econometrica 2 : 168 -75. Bjerkholt, O. 1998 . Ragnar Frisch and the Foundation of the Econometric Society and Econometrica. In Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20th Century , edited by S. Strøm. Cambridge: Cambridge...

... to introduce the subject of this article: • 19 August: At the Fifth World Congress of the Econometric Society, for the first time, an Invited Symposium on Econometric Methodol- ogy was held. The invited speakers were David F. Hendry, Edward Leamer, and Christopher Sims. Adrian R. Pagan...

... America. The Econometric Society It will come as a surprise to some economists to learn that the Econo- metric Society has played a major role in the establishment of modern economic science in Latin America. Most economists see that society as the ultimate center of rarified, abstruse...

... Science 4.1 : 105 -9. ____. 1957b . The Theory of Inventory Decisions. Econometrica 25.2 : 222 -38. ____. 1959a . Expectations, Inventories, and the Stability of Competitive Markets. Paper presented at the meeting of the Econometric Society, 30 December . ____. 1959b . Uncertainty...

...; Renfro 2009), both of which can be seen to form the foun- dation of the modern practice of econometrics. An additional develop- mental aspect conceptually since the founding of the Econometric Society in 1930 has been the more gradual realization of a sharpening distinction between econometrics...

...) can Economic Associution. Amt>ricanEconomic Revic\ri 22, no. 1 , Sup- plement (March 1932): 1-4. 2. ”Imperfect Competition” (Round-Table Conference-Joint Session with the Econometric Society). Papers und Proc-c)c)dingsof tho Forty-Sixth Annuat Meeting of the American...