Essays on the Structure of Social Science Models (MIT Press)

Ando, Albert; Fisher, Franklin M.; Simon, Herbert A.

ISBN 10: 0262511614 / ISBN 13: 9780262511612

Published by The MIT Press, 1963

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Title: Essays on the Structure of Social Science ...

Publisher: The MIT Press

Publication Date: 1963

Binding: Paperback

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Synopsis:

A set of related papers dealing with the meaning of causality in simulataneous dynamic equation systems. Investigation of the systems which only approximately satisfy the conditions enabling the definition of causality, leads to a set of limiting theorems concerning the dynamic behavior of such systems over time, and estimation procedures for the parameters of such systems. Implications of these theorems for some well-known propositions in economics and other social sciences are considered.

About the Authors:

Albert Ando is Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.

Franklin M. Fisher is Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, Emeritus, at MIT. He was the lead expert economist for the defense, assisted by John J. McGowan and Joen E. Greenwood of Charles River Associates, in the major antitrust case U.S. v. IBM. His collected essays have been published in Econometrics: Essays in Theory and Applications and in Industrial Organization, Economics and the Law.

Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an influential psychologist and political scientist, awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics and the 1975 Turing Award (with Allen Newell). His many published books include Models of Bounded Rationality and Models of My Life (both published by the MIT Press)..