Review of Jeff E. Biddle's Progress Through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, xii + 334 pp.

Aiko Ikeo is a professor in the Faculty of Commerce at Waseda University, Tokyo. She was a research fellow at Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy. She has been working on the history of Japanese economic thought from around 1600 to the present, and the biography of Tameyuki Amano (1861–1938) for several years. She published A History of Economic Science in Japan (Routledge, 2014). She edited Economic Development in Twentieth Century East Asia (Routledge, 1997) and Japanese Economics and Economists since 1945 (Routledge, 2000).