Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217476

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Title:: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

Place of publication:: Amsterdam [u.a.]

Publisher:: North-Holland Publ. Co. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1965

Scope:: XLVII, 1259 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Selection and implementation the econometrics of the future / Ragnar Frisch, Universitetet i Oslo - Sosialøkonomisk Institutt - Oslo- Norge

Collection:: Economics Books

1226 PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA -~ 28 this problem entirely in my previously writings. I have here for distribution some big mimeographed sheets which show a work we have been doing at the Oslo Institute of Economics, on the principles of how to study the interrelations between three countries. This job was done primarily by a Swedish economist, Mr. Tom Kronsjo, who has been working with us for quite some time. He uses my system of notation. If any of you are particularly interested, I have a few more copies for distribution. Prof. MAHALANOBIS, I must excuse myself if I have not got your point quite straight. There is quite a distance along this table and nisunderstandings may arise. As I understood it your first point was this: the politician will not be able to understand a scientific question. My answer is: of course he will not. If you put up to him a description of some 450 dependent variables and 31 degrees of freedom he will be entirely lost. But I don’t suggest that you are :o put up to him such a system. You should only put up to him very simple questions, one at a time. That is the basis of the inter- viewing technique. I am absolutely certain that if you can have a quite and not too rushed conversation with the policy maker, being careful that he understands your questions correctly then very meaningful results will emerge. I am not stating a theoretical hypothesis, but basing my opinion on actual conversations with leading politicians including the Chief of Prof. MAHALANOBIS’ country. Prof. Arirais spoke about the difficulties of constructing a pre- ference function. His main point here was that we have many different preference functions, the preference function of different groups, oi different persons and so on. Of course we have, I have, for instance, found in my interviewing of high-ranking officials that the Minister of Agri- culture will have different preferences from the Minister of Education or the Minister of Industry. Similarly there will be differences bet- ween regions of the country and, perhaps even more important, dif- erences of opinion of what should be done in a group of countries 17] Frisch - pag. 30

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