Cette recherche tente de saisir le contenu de la definition de l'econometrie donnee par Ragnar Frisch en 1933 a la communaute des economistes qui voulaient s'engager dans la fondation et le developpement d'une nouvelle branche de la science economique. La reponse reside dans l'assimilation operee par Frisch de l'econometrie a une discipline. Cette derniere se caracterise a la fois par un champ de recherche, une methodologie et des outils. L'econometrie frischienne pose les jalons theoriques, analytiques et methodologiques de l'econometrie structurelle qui fut le paradigme de la Cowles...

This volume considers the history of econometrics, a field of economics that combines statistics, mathematics, and economic theory. Contributors scrutinize accounts of the field's shifting boundaries and the development of a cohesive scholarly community of econometricians. These essays consider applied research and methodologies in context and connect the history of econometrics to contemporary developments in related disciplines and technologies. Analyzing the practice of econometrics around the world since its introduction in the 1920s, contributors examine the relationship between...

The development of economics changed dramatically during the twentieth century with the emergence of econometrics, macroeconomics and a more scientific approach in general. One of the key individuals in the transformation of economics was Ragnar Frisch, professor at the University of Oslo and the first Nobel Laureate in economics in 1969. He was a co-founder of the Econometric Society in 1930 (after having coined the word econometrics in 1926) and edited the journal Econometrics for twenty-two years. The discovery of the manuscripts of a series of eight lectures given by Frisch at the Henri...