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It is the unification of all three that is powerful. And it is this unification that constitutes econometrics.

— Ragnar Frisch

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The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations.

Certain exterior impulses hit the economic mechanism and thereby initiate more or less regular oscillations.

Deep in the human nature there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable.

(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.

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There is also present another source of energy operating in a more continuous fashion and being more intimately connected with the permanent evolution in human societies.

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