Introduction: Taking structure seriously -- Structure and its measurement in econometrics -- Theory, structure and models -- Two strands of demand analysis -- Trygve Haavelmo and measuring the structure of the consumption function -- Milton Friedman and the emergence of the permanent income...

This study aims at the analysis of the possible self-referential effects of economic theories and models on its own subject and of the mechanisms through which bounded rational actors perceive the self-referential nature of economic theories and might absorb their prescriptions. Thus, the focus...