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 …

reveals that much of the interaction between econometrics and economics involved modellers taking certain tradeoffs between …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 …

, relating them to Frisch's later works and, more important, to subsequent developments in economics and econometrics. -- History … Economic Theory: The Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch (details at: http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/A-Dynamic-Approach-to-Economic-Theory … of econometrics …