TY - JOUR AU - Griliches,Zvi TI - The Discovery of the Residual: An Historical Note JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 5348 PY - 1995 Y2 - November 1995 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5348 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5348.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Zvi Griliches E-Mail: N/A user is deceased AB - This note reviews the history of the 'residual,' from its earliest articulation in Copeland (1937) to its codification in Solow (1957), describing the various earlier contributions by Tinbergen, Stigler, Schmookler, Fabricant, Kendrick, Abramovitz and others. ER -