This challenging and original book takes a fresh, innovative look at econometrics, and re-examines the scientific standing of structural econometrics as developed by the founders (Frisch and Tinbergen) and extended by Haavelmo and the Cowles modellers (particularly Klein) during the period 1930-1960.

The authors begin by rethinking the scientific foundations of structural econometrics, offering a way around the problem of induction that also justifies the assumption of a data generating mechanism', and of ways to model this. They go on to explain how current critiques of the methodological foundations of structural econometrics are direct consequences of implicitly accepted but seriously flawed elements in neoclassical thinking. In the final part they present their distinctive methodological contribution: a blend of fieldwork and conceptual analysis designed to ensure that their models are well grounded in reality, and at the same time, conceptually coherent as well as statistically adequate. In so doing, they outline a number of elements that will be needed to develop a 'good' macroeconometric model of an advanced economy.

Rational Econometric Man will prove a stimulating and thought-provoking read for scholars and researchers in the field of economics, and, more specifically, heterodox economics.

Contents:
Foreword by Lawrence R. Klein
Introduction
Part I: From Rational Economic Man to Rational Econometric Man
1. Re-reading Hollis and Nell
2. Haavelmo Reconsidered as Rational Econometric Man
3. Induction and the Empiricist Account of General Laws
4. Variables, Laws and Induction I: Are There Laws of Nature?
5. Variables, Laws and Induction II: Scientific Variables and Scientific Laws in Economics
6. The Concept of the 'Model' and the Methodology of Model Building
Part II: The Critiques and the Foundations
7. Debating the Foundations: A New Perspective?
8. Scientific Issues in Structural Econometrics
9. Haavelmo and Beyond: Probability, Uncertainty, Specification and Stochasticism
Part III: Structural Econometrics in its Place: Mapping New Directions
10. Conceptual Analysis, Fieldwork and the Methodology of Model Building
11. Working with Open Models: Lawlike Relations and an Uncertain Future
Conclusion
References
Index

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Edward J. Nell, Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research, US and Karim Errouaki, Special Advisor, Foundation for the Culture of Peace, Spain

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