Observation and observing in economics Harro Maas and Mary S. Morgan -- The space of observation Cunning observation: US agricultural statistics in the time of laissez-faire Emmanuel Didier -- Economic observation and measurement in Russia before 1917: surveying typicalities and sampling...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economics : inductive or deductive science? -- 3. Economics and statistics -- 4. Business-cycle research : the rise of modelling -- 5. John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen : the dramatist and the model-builder -- 6. Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric...