.... Philosophical Transactions 226 : 267 -98. The Rise of “Non-October” Econometrics: Kondratiev and Slutsky at the Moscow Conjuncture Institute Judy L. Klein As economic researchers at the Moscow Conjuncture Institute in the 1920s, Nikolai Kondratiev and Eugen Slutsky modeled capitalist processes...

...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...

...Kevin D. Hoover Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Epstein, Roy J. 1987 . A History of Econometrics . Amsterdam: Elsevier. Hendry, David F., and Mary S. Morgan, eds. 1995 . The Foundations of Econometric Analysis . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Klein, Judy...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...John Aldrich The period 1895–1925 saw the origins and establishment of the fields that came to be called econometrics and psychometrics. I consider what these fields owed to biometry—the statistical approach to the biological problems of evolution—and make some comparisons between all three. I...

...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...

...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...

...Hsiang-Ke Chao; Chao-Hsi Huang This essay studies the contribution of Ta-Chung Liu to econometrics by focusing on the models and methods of Liu's econometric practices from the 1950s to the 1970s. We document his development of an exploratory econometric approach, a development he effected...

... 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...

.... 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...

..., 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...

... realized. Universite‘ de Montre‘al MAURICELAGUEUX A history of econometrics. By Roy J. Epstein. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, Tokyo: North Holland, 1987. 254 pp. Dfl. 125.00. Compared to the literature about both the marginal and the Keynesian revolu- tion, very...

.... Mackeprang , E. P. 1924b . Matematisk national⊘konomi . Copenhagen. Malinvaud , E. 1970 . Statistical methods of econometrics . New York. Moore , H. 1908 . ‘The statistical complement of pure economics.’ Quarterly Journal of Economics . Moore , H. 1914 . Economic cycles...

.... , 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...