Measurement forms the substance of econometrics. This chapter outlines the history of econometrics from a measurement … perspective - how have measurement errors been dealt with and how, from a methodological standpoint, did econometrics evolve so as … to represent theory more adequately in relation to data? The evolution is organized in terms of four phases: 'theory and …

This paper examines the history of econometrics through a particular case study - modelling the tradeoff between … different concerns and the different problems that they encountered has fed back into the development of econometrics. The study … reveals that much of the interaction between econometrics and economics involved modellers taking certain tradeoffs between …