Survey of Recent Work in the History of Econometrics: A Witness Report

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2019

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Boumans, MarcelORCID 0000-0002-8717-8148ISNI 0000000114741596

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Abstract

This survey is a witness report of what is happening in the community of historians of econometrics. This survey is a follow-up of an earlier survey which investigated who was active in the history of econometrics. The conclusion of the earlier survey was that interest in the history of econometrics has arisen primarily from within econometrics itself and that its stories have been written mainly by econometricians. The conclusion of the current survey is that econometrics as a discipline remains of interest only to the econometricians but that the artifacts created by econometricians have caught the attention of historians of science.

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case study research, crediting, history of science, metaphors, probabilistic revolution, Taverne

Citation

Boumans, M 2019, 'Survey of Recent Work in the History of Econometrics : A Witness Report', History of Political Economy, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 805-826. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7803679