...Mary S. Morgan Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Foreword Mary S. Morgan It is nigh on a generation since the first forays by historians of econom- ics into the subject of econometrics (Epstein 1987, De Marchi and Gil- bert 1989, Morgan 1990, and Qin 1993) were made...

...Harro Maas; Mary S. Morgan Two themes are generative for revealing and understanding the history of observation in economics. First, we argue for the importance of noting that observation is an activity as well as a result, and second that observation is no more identical with quantification than...

...Judy L. Klein; Mary S. Morgan Duke University Press 2001 The Reader’s Essential Non-Guide to The Age of Economic Measurement Judy L. Klein and Mary S. Morgan There is no editorial introduction or conclusion to this volume, nor is the book divided into labeled parts, nor...

...Mary S. Morgan Correspondence may be addressed to Mary S. Morgan, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2 2AE, U.K.;e-mail: m.morgan@lse.ac.uk . Duke University Press 2001 Bjerkholt, O. [1998] 2000 . Interaction between Model Builders...

...Mary S. Morgan; Malcolm Rutherford Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. References Coats , A. W 1992 . Economics in the United States, 1920–70...

...Mary S. Morgan Correspondence may be addressed to Professor Mary Morgan, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, England. I thank Malcolm Rutherford for helping me to start this project; Bob Coats for commenting so patiently and extensively...

...Neil De Marchi; Mary S. Morgan Neil De Marchi is professor of economics at Duke University. He is editor of a volume entitled Non-Natural Social Science: Reflecting on the Enterprise of “More Heat than Light” (1993) and is currently working on the art markets of the Netherlands...

...Mary S. Morgan Mary S. Morgan is professor in history and philosophy of economics at the University of Amsterdam and lecturer in economic history at the London School of Economics. She is author of The History of Econometric Ideas (1990) and is currently working on the history of American...

...Mary S. Morgan; Maria Bach Recipes for creating development have changed radically since the international community first thought to intervene in such historical processes soon after World War II. During this time, views about how to measure development have also changed dramatically, moving from...

...Mary S. Morgan This article investigates the role played by narrative in drawing inferences from statistics before the adoption of formal inference regimes in economics. Two well-known, and exemplary, cases of informal inference provide the materials. Nikolai Kondratiev’s struggles to make...

...Mary S. Morgan As historians of economics, we are most used to dealing with the finished work of economists: the written words, diagrams, and math of those we study. Sometimes we are lucky enough to have research notes, diaries, or oral interviews, or to attend seminars. These are valuable...

...Maria Bach; Mary S. Morgan This article examines how the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) redefined their idea of development over the two decades from 1990, no longer presenting it as only a matter of economic progress but instead focusing more on the problem of poverty and its reduction...

...Mary S. Morgan Twentieth-century economics has been characterized as developing an engineering mentality, but this history suggests the importance of distinguishing between a design approach and a problem-solving approach. The former is to be found in economists tasked with reconstructing broken...

...Mary S. Morgan; Thomas A. Stapleford Abstract Narratives have drawn increasing attention from economists and from historians and philosophers of science. Yet little of that attention has made it into the history of economics itself. This essay reviews some of the salient literature on economic...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte; Yann Giraud Economists such as Alvin Roth and Esther Duflo have recently argued that economics in the late twentieth century has evolved from (social) science to engineering. On the other hand, historians such as Mary Morgan and Michel Armatte have argued...

... Gilbert Kurz Heinz , 106 – 16 . Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar . Boumans Marcel . 2018 . Introduction to the symposium “Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise.” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Including a Symposium on the Work of Mary Morgan: Curiosity...

... 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 of economic theory with mathematics and statistics. This book in- vestigates the genesis of this ideal as well as its evolution...

...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...

...-mail: verena.halsmayer@univie.ac.at . For his many helpful suggestions and motivating advice, I want to thank Marcel Boumans. I am especially grateful to Robert Solow for granting me an interview and commenting on a previous draft of this article. I gratefully acknowledge the suggestions I received from Mary S. Morgan...

... and the Economists of His Time. The Manchester School 30 : 203 -21. ____. 1972a . Jevons, Bentham, and De Morgan. Economica , n.s., 39 : 119 -34. ____. 1972b . W. S. Jevons and the Foundations of Modern Economics. HOPE 4 : 364 -78. Black, R. D. C., A. W. Coats, and C. D. W. Goodwin, eds. 1973...