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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969
Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969
Ragnar Frisch
Jan Tinbergen
Jan Tinbergen
Born: 12 April 1903, the Hague, the Netherlands
Died: 9 June 1994, the Hague, the Netherlands
Affiliation at the time of the award: The Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Prize motivation: "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes"
Field: Econometrics
Contribution: Pioneering work on econometric model building. Constructed theories for stabilization policy and long-term economic planning.
Curriculum Vitae
| Born | 1903, The Hague, Netherlands |
| Education | 1929, Leyden University, Doctor of Physics |
| Academic appointments | |
| 1933 | Professor at the Netherlands School of Economics, teaching various subjects; fulltime from 1956 onwards, when subject became Development Programming |
| Non-academic offices | |
| 1929-1945 | Statistician for Business Cycle Research, Central Bureau of Statistics |
| 1936-1938 | Expert, temporarily attached to League of Nations Secretariat |
| 1945-1955 | Director of Central Planning Bureau of Netherlands Government |
| Advisor to governments of various developing countries (United Arab Republic, Turkey, Venezuela, Surinam, Indonesia, Pakistan and other countries, occasionally) and to international organizations (European Coal and Steel Community, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, United Nations Secretariat and other specialized and regional organizations) | |
| Honors and honorary degrees | |
| Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Science and some foreign academies, honorary doctor of fifteen universities, mostly European. | |
| Principal publications | |
| Business Cycles in the United States, 1919-1932, Geneva, 1939 and New York, 1968 | |
| Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1870-1914, Amsterdam, 1951 | |
| Centralization and Decentralization in Economic Policy, Amsterdam, 1954 | |
| Economic Policy: Principles and Design, Amsterdam, 1956 | |
| Selected Papers, Amsterdam, 1959 | |
| The Element of Space in Development Planning (together with L.B.M. Mennes and J.G. Waardenburg), Amsterdam, 1969 | |
From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969-1980, Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992
This CV was first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
Jan Tinbergen died on June 9, 1994.
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