The Dane Edvard Ph. Mackeprang: the world’s first modern econometrician

TY - CONF

T1 - The Dane Edvard Ph. Mackeprang

T2 - Nordic Econometric Meeting

AU - Kærgård, Niels

N1 - Conference code: 8

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Edvard Ph. Mackeprang contributed to econometrics and descriptive statistics in the first decade of the 20th century. His econometric contributions were not well received of his contemporaries (with Ragnar Frisch as the only exception); consequently they were never published outside Denmark and forgotten until the 1970s. But since they have been rediscovered and at least two of them justifies to call him the world’s first modern econometrician.

AB - Edvard Ph. Mackeprang contributed to econometrics and descriptive statistics in the first decade of the 20th century. His econometric contributions were not well received of his contemporaries (with Ragnar Frisch as the only exception); consequently they were never published outside Denmark and forgotten until the 1970s. But since they have been rediscovered and at least two of them justifies to call him the world’s first modern econometrician.

M3 - Paper

Y2 - 28 May 2015 through 30 May 2015

ER -