...Jim Thomas Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function . By Chao Hsiang-Ke . London : Routledge , 2009 . xiii; 161 pp. £65.00 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Malinvaud Edmond...

...James R. Simpson; Lonnie L. Jones Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 21 NOTE: The progress of the econometric movement In a recent article in this journal, “Quantitative Analysis of the Progress...

...Ariane Dupont-Kieffer The conference organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (hereafter PAS) in 1961 on “the role of econometrics in formulating development plans” represents a milestone in the work of Ragnar Frisch but also in the history of econometrics, challenging the more or less...

...Daniela Parisi This essay deals with some key Italian contributions to econometrics in the twentieth century. It opens with some notes on the need to define and measure each dimension of the manifold notion of well-being. While considering the convinced supporters of the methodological adoption...

.... , and H. Smith. Applied Regression Analysis . New York: Wiley, 1966 . Duesenberry , J. S. , and G. Frommet al. The Brookings Quarterly Econometric Model . Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1965 . Duesenberry , J. S. , G. Fromm, G. Fromm, L. R. Klein, and E. Kuh. The Brookings...

... . The Significance of Replication in Econometrics. Discussion Paper 92–23, University of Birmingham Department of Economics. Bergstrom , A. R. 1978 . Stability and Inflation . London: Wiley. Blyth , C. A. 1975 . A. W. H. Phillips, MBE. Economic Record 50 . 135 : 303 -7. Bowen , W. G...

...Niels Kœrgaard History of Political Economy 16:3 0 1984 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/84/$1.50 The earliest history of econometrics: some neglected Danish...

... of the nineteenth century, a scientific theory had to be mathematical; in the interbellum the image of science was that of logical positivism. In the 1970s and 1980s the dominant views were those of Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos, and Thomas Kuhn. Currently the scientific image in econometrics is the one of the Stanford...

...Thomas A. Stapleford From 1910–1940, the practice of business and the practice of economics came to inform one another in novel ways, a reconfiguration that included the emergence of econometrics. The core locus for this intersection came from the rise of commercial forecasting—whether analyses...

... 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...

...Ariane Dupont-Kieffer; Alain Pirotte This essay focuses on the early years of panel data econometrics and two seminal papers by Yair Mundlak ( 1961 ) and Pietro Balestra and Marc Nerlove ( 1966 ). The issue of latent individual heterogeneity was identified as a central problem. One main ambition...

...Duo Qin This essay examines the history of econometrics through a case study of the Phillips curve, that is, econometric modeling of the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. It focuses on a number of questions: What econometric tools did modelers choose to use in modeling the Phillips...

...Charles G. Renfro This essay considers some of the circumstances that have characterized econometric practice during the past fifty to sixty years, including both the invention and use of the electronic computer and the growing accessibility of both micro- and macroeconomic data. However, its...

...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...

.... Book Reviews A History of Econometrics in France: From Nature to Models. By Philippe Le Gall. London: Routledge, 2007. xx; 296 pp. $160.00. As the title indicates, this is not a general, gentle introduction, but a focused, sophis- ticated treatment of pioneering French scholars...

.... G. Hawtrey and the development of macroeconomics . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Divisia , F. 1953 . La Société d'économétrie a atteint sa majorité. Econometrica 21 : 1 -30. Epstein , Roy . 1987 . A history of econometrics . Amsterdam: North Holland. Floss...

...Kevin D. Hoover Minisymposium on the History of Econometrics: Introduction Kevin D. Hoover The decade 1987 to 1997 was a great one for the history of econometrics. It began with Roy Epstein’s 1987 monograph. Mary Morgan’s classic his- tory was published not long after (in 1990). Other...

..., prediction and econometrics. In Keynes's economics: methodological issues , 116 -33. Edited by Tony Lawson and Hashem Pesaran. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe. Patinkin , Don . 1976 . Keynes and econometrics. Econometrica , November, 1091 -1123. Pearson , Karl . 1910 . Supplement...

.... Monopolistic Competition and General Equilibrium Theory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. The History of Econometrics. by Mary S. Morgan. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 1990. 296 pp. W.50. The Econometrics Society, founded in 193 I, described the econometric ideal as the union...

...Marcel Boumans This survey is a witness report of what is happening in the community of historians of econometrics. This survey is a follow-up of an earlier survey which investigated who was active in the history of econometrics. The conclusion of the earlier survey was that interest in the history...