...Agnar Sandmo Ragnar Frisch on the Optimal Diet Agnar Sandmo Although Ragnar Frisch won international recognition as a pioneer in the economic theory of production and also made path-breaking con- tributions to consumer theory, his attempt to apply the methods of pro- duction...

...Olav Bjerkholt; Ariane Dupont-Kieffer The title hints at the attention given to the lack of probability considerations in the econometric work of the recognized pioneer of econometrics, Ragnar Frisch. Clues to a better understanding of his position may be found in his comprehensive archive...

.... “The Theory of Economic Cycles Based on the Capitalistic, Technique of Production.” Review of Economic Statistics , Oct. 1927 . Andvig , Jens Chr. “Den historiske bakgrunnen til Frisch's analyse av forholdet sak og vurdering.” Memorandum fra Sosialoekonomisk Institutt Universitetet i Oslo. 21 April...

... . The Theory of Economic Cycles Based on the Capitalist Technique of Production. Review of Economic Statistics 9.4 : 165 -70. Andvig, J. 1987 . Ragnar Frisch and the Great Depression . PhD diss., Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo. Andvig, J., and T. Thonstad. 1998 . Ragnar Frisch...

...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...

...Peter Lloyd This article examines the first appearances of the isoquant, a concept that is central to production and supply theory. It appears to have been discovered independently by Bowley, Frisch, Cobb, and Lerner, in that order. Frisch coined the term isoquant . It is possible but not likely...

...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...

... journal articles in economics and in nearly half in macroeconomics. Surprisingly, its rise as an essential element in the vocabulary of economists can be dated only to the early 1970s. We trace the history of shocks in macroeconomics from Ragnar Frisch and Eugen Slutsky in the 1920s and 1930s through real...

... University for permission to quote from the Oskar Morgenstern papers; Harvard University Library to quote from the Joseph Alois Schumpeter papers; and the daughter of Ragnar Frisch for permission to quote from the Ragnar Frisch papers. Research for this essay was supported by FCT, Portugal, and the essay...

...., ed. 1995 . Foundations of Modern Econometrics: The Selected Essays of Ragnar Frisch . Vol. 1 . Aldershot: Edward Elgar. ———. 2005 . Frisch's Econometric Laboratory and the Rise of Trygve Haavelmo's Probability Approach. Econometric Theory 21 : 491 –533. ———. 2007 . Writing...

... First, this book sheds light on the shadowy or still-ignored areas of the emergence of macroeconomics. By focusing on the first works in macroeconometrics by Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen, Assous and Carret provide an account that is an indispensable complement to the works of Kevin Hoover, Pierre...

... ; to Nasjonalbiblioteket–Special Collection (Oslo, Norway) for available Ragnar Frisch–Corrado Gini correspondence (Frisch Archive); and to Columbia University Archives. The author thanks two anonymous referees and Enrico Bellino for their useful comments on a previous version of the essay; Inti Merino Rimini...

...Einar Lie Correspondence may be addressed to Einar Lie, Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and Historical Studies, Moltke Moes vei 35, P.O. Box 1008 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway. Duke University Press 2007 Andvig, Jens C. 1977 . Den historiske bakgrunnen til Frisch's...

... in Business Cycles . New York: National Bureau of Economic Research in cooperation with the Committee on Recent Economic Changes. Frisch, R. 1931 . The Interrelation between Capital Production and Consumer-Taking. Journal of Political Economy 39 : 646 -54. ____. 1932 . Capital Production...

... . Ragnar Frisch at the University of Oslo. In Strøm 1998 , 3 –25. Anderson, T. W. 1965 . Samuel Stanley Wilks. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 36 : 1 –23. Arrow, K. J. 1960 . The Work of Ragnar Frisch, Econometrician. Econometrica 28 : 175 –92. Arrow, K. J., and E. L. Lehmann. 2005...

...Jens Christopher Andvig The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Postboks 8159 Dep., 0033 Oslo 1, Norway. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Andvig , Jens Christopher 1981 . Ragnar Frisch and Business Cycle Research during the Interwar Years...

... University Press. Friedman, M. 1952 . The Economic Theorist. In Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Economic Scientist , edited by A. Burns, 237 -82. New York: NBER. Frisch, Ragnar. 1931 . A Method of Decomposing an Empirical Series into its Cyclical and Progressive Components. Journal of the American...

.... 1960 . The Work of Ragnar Frisch,Econometrician. Econometrica 28.2 : 175 -92. Bracey, R. J. 1960 . The Technique of Optical Instrument Design . London: The English University Press. Bumstead, Henry Andrew. [1906] 1961 . Biographical Sketch. In The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs...

..., William, 168 translation of ideas into, 91, 93 director, 174 Confluence Analysis (Frisch), directorship, 78, 80 115–16, 120 and Econometric Society, 72 Consumer Advisory Board, 314 economic statistics, 169 Consumer movement, knowledge...

..., The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected] . I would like to thank Kevin D. Hoover for his constructive support. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Bjerkholt O. 2005 . “ Frisch’s Econometrics Laboratory and the Rise of Trygve Haavelmo’s Probability Approach...