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Definition: Tinbergen, Jan from The Columbia Encyclopedia

(yän tĭn'bĕr´´gӘn), 1903–94, Dutch economist, co-winner with Ragnar Frisch of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1969). A graduate of Leiden Univ. (1929), he worked (1929–45) with the Dutch government's Central Bureau of Statistics, and was briefly an adviser to the League of Nations (1936–38). He also served (1945–55) as director of the Dutch central planning bureau. He was a professor (1933–73) at the Netherlands School of Economics in Rotterdam. His publications include Economic Policy: Principles and Design (1956), Shaping the World Economy (1963), and Development Planning (1967).

Tinbergen, Jan

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Dutch economist. Tinbergen's work was focused on econometrics (the mathematical-statistical expression of economic theory), with studies of the US and British economies appearing in Statistical Testing of Business Cycle Theories (1939) and Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1870–1914 (1951) respectively. He shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1969 with Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch . Tinbergen threw himself into econometric research and soon found himself building econometric models of the entire economy. His first attempt to build such a model, containing 24 equations to describe the Dutch economy, was not published until 1936, ten years after it was first conceived. Next was a two-volume work, Statistical Testing of Business Cycle Theories (1939), the first of which focused entirely on investment activity and the second on the macroeconomic modelling of business cycles in the USA. English economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a scathing review of the first volume in The…
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(born April 12, 1903, The Hague, Neth.—died June 9, 1994, Netherlands) Dutch economist noted for his development of econometric models. For 40 years (1933–73) he taught at the Netherlands School of Economics. As economic adviser to the League of Nations (1936–38), he studied the economic development…
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