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a short history of the generation that reinvented economics
xxix, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
'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 -- Intriguing pendula : delights and dangers of econometric conversation -- Challenging Keynes : the econometric movement builds its trenches -- Quod errat demonstrandum : probability concepts puzzling the econometricians -- Chaos or randomness : the missing manuscript -- Is capitalism doomed? : a Nobel discussion -- Prometheus tired of war -- Conclusion : a brave new world.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [352]-368) and index.
Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 88