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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459396903321

Titolo

A dynamic approach to economic theory : lectures by Ragnar Frisch at Yale University / / edited by Olav Bjerkholt and Duo Qin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-92784-0

1-136-92785-9

1-282-73263-3

9786612732638

0-203-84552-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 118

Altri autori (Persone)

BjerkholtOlav <1942->

QinDuo

Disciplina

330.01/5195

Soggetti

Economics

Econometrics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword: Teaching economics as a science: the Yale lectures of Ragnar Frisch; Acknowledgements; Editors' introduction: Teaching economics as a science: the Yale lectures of Ragnar Frisch; 1 General considerations on statics and dynamics in economics; 2 Dynamic formulation of some parts of economic theory; 3 Statistical verification of the laws of economic theory; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains a set of notes prepared by Ragnar Frisch for a lecture series that he delivered at Yale University in 1930. The lecture notes provide not only a valuable source document for the history of econometrics, but also a more systematic introduction to some of Frisch's key methodological ideas than his other works so far published in various media for the econometrics community. In particular, these notes contain a number of prescient ideas precursory to some of the most important notions developed in econometrics during the 1970s and 1980s More remarkably, Frisch