Mary S. Morgan FBA

British Academy

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 (Fellow of the British Academy) and FRDAAS (Overseas Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences),is Professor of the History of Economics in the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

 since 1999, of which she had earlier obtained a BSc in Economics (1978), and her Ph.D. (1984). From 1992 - 2002 she also worked part-time as Professor of the History and Methodology of Economics in the University of Amsterdam.
Professor Morgan has made important contributions to the history of economic thought

History of economic thought

The history of economic thought deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject that became political economy and economics from the ancient world to the present day...

, especially with regard to the history of econometrics

Econometrics

Econometrics has been defined as "the application of mathematics and statistical methods to economic data" and described as the branch of economics "that aims to give empirical content to economic relations." More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on...

, the historical development of measurement

Measurement

Measurement is the process or the result of determining the ratio of a physical quantity, such as a length, time, temperature etc., to a unit of measurement, such as the metre, second or degree Celsius...

 in economics, and the evolution and methodological implications of the use of economic models.

Most important publications

• The History of Econometric Ideas, 1990.
• The Foundations of Econometric Analysis (with D.F. Hendry)
  David Forbes Hendry
  Sir David Forbes Hendry, FBA is a British econometrician, currently a professor of economics and from 2001-2007 was Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford...
  
  , 1995.
• Models as Mediators (ed. with M. Morrison), 1999.
• The Age of Economic Measurement (ed. with J. Klein), 2001 (History of Political Economy, Annual Supplement to Vol. 33).