Hsiang-Ke Chao is Associate Professor of Economics at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

This groundbreaking book provides a perspective on two alternative and competing views of the role of models in the development of theories and the advance of scientific understanding - namely, the syntactic and semantic approaches.

Preface 1. Introduction: Taking Structure Seriously 2. Structure and its Measurement in Econometrics 3. Theory, Structure, and Models: 4. Two Strands of Demand Analysis: 5. Trygve Haavelmo and Measuring the Structure of the Consumption Function 6. Milton Friedman and the Emergence of the Permanent Income Hypothesis 7. Professor Hendry's Econometric Methodology Reconsidered Congruence and Structural Empiricism 8. A Structure of the Consumption Function 9. Conclusion Bibliography