ABSTRACT
The individuals and groups to be discussed in this chapter were also Consultant Administrators, though not of the academic type, and some of them qualify in addition as philosophers of natural law. Nevertheless, it was not only to relieve a chapter already overloaded with names that they have been reserved for separate treatment. Except for the great figure of Turgot, which is to come in at the end of the chapter, they have something in common that makes it desirable to marshal them into a connected array—the spirit of numerical analysis. They were Econometricians. In fact their works illustrate to perfection what Econometrics IS and what Econometricians are trying to do. 2
