"Not afraid of the impossible" : Ragnar Frisch, 1895-1973 -- The emergence of social physics : the econometric people are assembled -- The years of high theory -- What counts is what can be counted -- Particles or humans : paradoxes of mechanics -- Challenging Keynes : the econometric movement...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The philosophical foundations of econometrics. The axiomatic method. Utility as quantity. -- chapter 2 Examples of static and semi-static econometric theories. Monopoly, polypoly. The concept of force -- chapter 3 What is a dynamic theory? Properties of...