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Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

— Richard Stone

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There is no hope, as far as I can see, of pushing the postulates of economic theory back to a set of irreducible axioms.

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