The Econometric Society is an international society of academic
economist
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The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...
s interested in applying statistical tools in the practice of
econometrics
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. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians.
It was founded on December 29, 1930, at the
Statler Hotel in
Cleveland
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, Ohio. Its first president was
Irving Fisher.
As of 2014, there are about 700 elected fellows of the Econometric Society, making it one of the most prevalent research affiliations. New fellows are elected each year by the current fellows.
The sixteen founding members were
Ragnar Frisch
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist and econometrician known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science ...
,
Charles F. Roos,
Joseph A. Schumpeter,
Harold Hotelling
Harold Hotelling (; September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling ...
,
Henry Schultz,
Karl Menger
Karl Menger (; January 13, 1902 – October 5, 1985) was an Austrian-born American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebra over a field, algebras and the dimension theory of low-r ...
,
Edwin B. Wilson,
Frederick C. Mills,
William F. Ogburn,
J. Harvey Rogers,
Malcolm C. Rorty,
Carl Snyder,
Walter A. Shewhart,
Øystein Ore,
Ingvar Wedervang and
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener late ...
.
The Econometric Society sponsors the economics
academic journal
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''
Econometrica
''Econometrica'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles in many areas of economics, especially econometrics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Econometric Society. The current editor-in-chief is ...
'' and publishes the journals ''
Theoretical Economics'' and ''
Quantitative Economics''.
Officers
The Econometric Society is led by a president, who serves a one-year term. Election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society is considered by much of the economics profession to be an honor.
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List of presidents of the Econometric Society
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List of fellows of the Econometric Society
Honorary lectures
The Econometric Society sponsors several annual awards, in which the honored member delivers a lecture:
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Frisch Medal
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Walras–Bowley Lecture
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Fisher–Schultz Lecture
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Jacob Marschak Lecture
References
External links
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