Jeff E. Biddle

Progress through Regression (eBook, PDF)

The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recounts the history of a widely used statistical technique in economics, offering insight into how innovative research tools gain acceptance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108676656
• Artikelnr.: 70909770

Autorenporträt

Jeff E. Biddle is a Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He is a past president of the History of Economics Society, and his current research focuses on the history of empirical methods in economic research.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Paul Douglas and his Regression, 1927-1948: 1. The Origins of Douglas's Production Function Research Program and his Initial Time Series Studies
2. The Douglas-Mendershausen Debate and the Cross Section Studies
3. Theoretical and Econometric Challenges of the Early 1940s, and Douglas's Final Word
Part II. The Diffusion of the Cobb-Douglas Regression: 4. Three Important Developments in the Life of the Cobb-Douglas Regression, 1952-1961
5. The Cobb-Douglas Regression in Agricultural Economics, 1944-1965
6. The Cobb-Douglas Regression as a Tool for Measuring and Explaining Economic Growth
Part III. Conclusion
7. On the Success of the Cobb-Douglas Regression
References
Index.