Ceteris paribus: An evolution within agricultural econometrics

abstract

• This article considers the role that ceteris paribus has played in the historical development of empirical demand analysis in agriculture. Ceteris paribus was viewed as unobtainable by the early economic statisticians. Econometricians invoked the experimental paradigm to assure ceteris paribus. Whether researchers achieve ceteris paribus in observational data remained, for the first econometricians, an unanswered question. However, the next generation of econometricians appear to have taken ceteris paribus for granted. The possibility of an evolutionary economic system suggests that ceteris paribus may not be obtainable outside the laboratory. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.

authors

• Bessler, David

published proceedings

• EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

author list (cited authors)

• Bessler, D. A., & Dearmont, D.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Bessler, DA||Dearmont, D

publication date

• January 1996

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• European Review of Agricultural Economics  Journal

keywords

• Chance
• Demand Analysis
• Econometrics
• Experimental Methods
• Structure

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1093/erae/23.3.262

start page

• 262

end page

• 280

volume

• 23

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1093%2Ferae%2F23.3.262