...Esther-Mirjam Sent Judy L. Klein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 366 pp. $64.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Book Reviews Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis 1662-1938. By Judy L. Klein. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

....” Applied Economics 3 (June 1971 ): 85 -97. Crum , W. L. . “Cycles of Rates on Commercial Paper.” Review of Economic Statistics 5 (Jan. 1923 ): 17 -29. Cunnyngham , J. . The Spectral Analysis of Economic Time Series . Working Paper No. 14, U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington...

...William A. Salant Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 111. The balanced budget multiplier as the sum of an infinite series Williani A. Salant, 11 September 1964 The balanced budget theorem owes its seductive appeal partIy to a paradoxical quality...

...Stephen T. Worland Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Justum pretium: one more round in an “endless series” Stephen T. Worland In a recent article in this journal, George Wilson calls attention to the “astonishing . . . controversy” and “endless series of re...

...Angus Burgin In 1977 John Kenneth Galbraith hosted the documentary series The Age of Uncertainty on public television; three years later Milton Friedman hosted a competing series, Free to Choose . This essay examines the development of these two projects, examining both the institutions...

...Beatrice Cherrier; Aurélien Saïdi The standard view of the history of macroeconomics is one of a series of battles between schools of thought, eventually resolved through a “new neoclassical synthesis” achieved during the 1990s. Recently, however, historians have challenged the very notion...

... formula for index numbers by employing a series of mathematical tests. However, from the first presentation of Fisher's approach, at the 1920 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, to the publication of his book The Making of Index Numbers , in 1922, he faced a series of criticisms...

... that his overall conception of econometrics is insufficiently conveyed in the history of economics literature. This essay aims at illuminating key features of Frisch's scientific conception, drawing partly on unpublished works unearthed from his archives. Among these are a series of eight lectures...

... in spring 1937 but was scheduled for the ninth issue of the series. After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938, however, Menger's colloquium ended and the proof never appeared in print. Nor did Wald, after he fled to the United States and launched a career in statistics, attempt...

... economy. Liberatore’s purpose was to emend political economy and bring it into line with Catholic principles, but his two main objections to it, ethical and epistemological, imply that the task is impossible. Thus he does not press them and instead engages in a series of skirmishes with political economy...

... and 1815, the London-based journal The New Monthly Magazine published a series of anonymous essays under the titles “MS. Recollections of Lectures on Political Oeconomy” and “Recollections of the Unpublished Lectures of an Eminent Professor.” Comparing these essays with manuscript notes that students took...

... , which gathered a decade of works since 1932, I show how it offered an original answer to the inferential problem of the parameters’ statistical determination. Between what Jan Tinbergen called, in the same period, the “historical method,” based on regression techniques applied to time series...

... difficulties in managing the growing economy, opened the way to new approaches to Soviet economics. Scholars, primarily at a new Academy of Sciences institute for applying mathematics to economic problems—the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute—developed a series of models and policy recommendations...

...Olessia Kirtchik This article is focused on the economic works of the Soviet machinelearning pioneer Emmanuil Braverman, who published, during the 1970s, a series of papers introducing disequilibrium fixed-price models of the Soviet economy. This highly original theory, developed independently from...

..., this survey analyzes a series of elements within the HOPE literature set, and those related to the broader historiography of economics (i.e., including not only publications, but also conferences, workshops, the development of institutions, and several reactions to this research project). It uses...

...Alain Alcouffe; David le Bris The social scientist Jean Fourastié introduced his model of economic development in a book published in 1949. He based his analysis on a statistical series he had collected, which established two principles: technical progress is not uniformly distributed across...

... Department of the Bank of Spain, applied the theory of disposable funds to interpret a wide range of economic, monetary, and financial events in a series of reports that he drafted for advising the board of the bank during the period 1932–36, in the midst of the Great Depression. Correspondence may...

..., and exchange. There is no external enforcement of contracts and (in one series) no rules preventing “theft.” Group performance—either in success or in failure—well illustrates Hume's notion of rules as conventions that arise, or not, through common experience and by consent. In shaming or praising each other's...

... by experimenting with tools and elements in the model-building process and which led him finally to accept the recursive methodology represented by Herman Wold. We also discuss Liu's theoretical and empirical concerns for econometric models that spurred his involvement in a series of debates against the Cowles...

...Robert W. Dimand Best known as a Keynesian macroeconomist and monetary theorist, James Tobin was also actively engaged in empirical economics from his doctoral dissertation onward. His innovative combination of time-series data with household budget surveys in his 1947 dissertation and 1950 food...