Abstract
Frisch lived a long, varied and extremely productive life. He graduated in economics at the University of Oslo in 1919 (although as a son of a goldsmith he ‘supplemented’ this by finalizing his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in 1920!). He studied in France from 1921 to 1923 and in Britain in 1923; was an associate at the University of Oslo from 1925 and received his doctorate in 1926 in mathematical statistics (Frisch, 1926a). Further studies abroad in the USA, France and Italy (1927–8) were followed by an associate professorship at the University of Oslo (1928) and a full professorship in 1931. Frisch was head of the (newly established) Institute of Economics in Oslo from 1932 to his retirement in 1965. He was also chief editor of Econometrica (1933–55), followed by his chairmanship of the editorial board. He was one of the founders (1930) and, in fact, the driving force behind the creation of the Econometric Society. He was a member of a number of national and international expert committees and adviser on several occasions to developing countries (India 1954–5 and Egypt several times over the years 1957–64).
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Selected works
1926a. Sur les semi-invariants et moments employés dans l’étude des distributions statistiques. Skrifter utgitt av det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo IL Hist.-Filos. Klasse 1926, No. 3.
1926b. Sur un problème d’économie pure. (An attempt at developing an axiomatic foundation of utility as a quantitative notion and at measuring statistically the variation in the marginal utility of money on the basis of data from the Paris Cooperative Society.) Norsk Matematisk Forenings Skrifter Series I, No. 16, 1–40.
1931, 1932. The Interrelation between capital production and consumer taking. Journal of Political Economy 39(5) (1931), 646–54. A rejoinder, 40(2) (1932), 253–5. A final word, 40(5) (1932), 694.
1933a. Pitfalls in the Statistical Construction of Demand and Supply Curves. Leipzig: H. Buske.
1933b. Sparing og Cirkulasjonsregulering. Oslo.
1933c. Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics. In Economic Essays in Honor of Gustav Cassel. London: Allen & Unwin. Reprinted in Readings in Business Cycles, ed. R.A. Gordon and L.R. Klein. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966.
1934a. Circulation planning. Econometrica, Pt I, 2(3), 258–336; Pt II, 2(4), 422–35.
1934b. Statistical Confluence Analysis by Means of Complete Regression Systems. Oslo: University Institute of Economics.
1935. The principle of substitution. An example of its application in the chocolate industry. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Teknisk Økonomi, September, 12–27.
1936a. Annual survey of general economic theory: the problem of index numbers. Econometrica 4(1), 1–38.
1936b. On the notion of equilibrium and disequilibrium. Review of Economic Studies 3(2), 100–105.
1939. Nasjonalregnskapet. Transactions of the Nordisk Statistiker Mote, Oslo.
1943. Økosirk-systement. 1943. Ekonomisk Tidskrift 45, 106–21.
1950. Alfred Marshall’s theory of value. Quarterly Journal of Economics 64, 495–524.
1952. Frisch on Wicksell. In The Development of Economic Thought, ed. H.W. Spiegel. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
1956. La résolution des problèmes de programme linéaire par la méthode du potential logarithmique. In Séminaire économétrique, ed. R. Roy. Paris: CNRS.
1957. The multiplex method for linear programming. Sankhya 18(3–4), 329–60.
1959. A complete scheme for computing all direct and cross demand elasticities in a model with many sectors. Econometrica 27(2), 177–96.
1961a. Mixed linear and quadratic programming by the multiplex method. In Money, Growth and Methodology, Fesiskrift til Johan Akerman, ed. H. Hegeland. Lund: Gleerup.
1961b. Quadratic programming by the multiplex method in the general cases where the quadratic form may be singular. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute 38(4) (Tokyo), 283–332.
1962. Innledning til Produksjonsteorien. Oslo: Universitets Forlaget.
1963. Lois techniques et économiques de la production. Paris: Dunod. Trans, as Theory of Production, Dordrecht: D. Reidei; Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965.
1970. Econometrics in the world of today. In Induction, Growth and Trade; Essays in Honour of Sir Roy Harrod, ed. W.A. Eltis, M.F. Scott and J.N. Wolfe. London: Clarendon Press.
Bibliography
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Rasmussen, P.N. (2008). Frisch, Ragnar Anton Kittel (1895–1973). In: Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_604
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