The Discovery of the Residual: An Historical Note

Zvi Griliches

No 5348, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This note reviews the history of the 'residual,' from its earliest articulation in Copeland (1937) to its codification in Solow (1957), describing the various earlier contributions by Tinbergen, Stigler, Schmookler, Fabricant, Kendrick, Abramovitz and others.

Date: 1995-11
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Published as Journal of Economic Literature 34(3), Sept.1996, pp.1324-1330.

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