Un futur antérieur. Le rapport aux données dans le travail de prévision macroéconomique

Olivier Pilmis

Revue française de socio-Economie, 2018, vol. n° 21, issue 2, 59-76

Abstract: Macroeconomic forecasting decisively relies on the assessment of economies? current situations. Forecasters? work therefore shares common features with statistical work. This paper draws upon A. Desrosières?s typology to emphasize how forecasting combines various ways of tackling ?data? and assessing their ?realism.? It also sheds light on some principles according to which such combinations may be understood, such as the division of labor in the world of forecasting, forecasters? categories of classification, instruments that are used for the purpose of forecasting, and the temporalities of forecasting exercises.

Keywords: macroeconomic forecasting; quantification; data; realism; constructivism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFSE_021_0059 (application/pdf)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-socio-economie-2018-2-page-59.htm (text/html)
free

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cai:rfsdec:rfse_021_0059

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Revue française de socio-Economie from La découverte
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire ().