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Jan Tinbergen (The Hague
The Hague

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km?....
, April 12, 1903 June 9, 1994 The Hague
The Hague

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km?....
), Dutch economist
Economist

An economist is an expert in the social science of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy....
, was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.

Tinbergen was the eldest of five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek.






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Jan Tinbergen (The Hague
The Hague

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km?....
, April 12, 1903 June 9, 1994 The Hague
The Hague

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km?....
), Dutch economist
Economist

An economist is an expert in the social science of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy....
, was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.

Biography

Jan Tinbergen was the eldest of five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek. His brother Niko
Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Netherlands ethology and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals....
 would also win a Nobel Prize (for physiology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
, in 1973) for his work in ethology
Ethology

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,...
, while his youngest brother Luuk
Luuk Tinbergen

Luuk Tinbergen was a Netherlands ornithologist and ecologist.Tinbergen was the youngest of three eminent brothers — both Jan Tinbergen and Nikolaas Tinbergen won Nobel Prizes, for economics and physiology or medicine, respectively....
 would become a famous ornithologist. Tinbergen studied mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
 and physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
 at the University of Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest
Paul Ehrenfest

Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian physicist and mathematician, who obtained Netherlands citizenship on March 24, 1922. He made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum physics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem....
. In 1929 he earned his PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 degree at this university with his thesis entitled "Minimumproblemen in de natuurkunde en de economie" (Minimisation problems in Physics and Economics). From 1929 till 1945 he worked, in addition to his professorship at Erasmus University Rotterdam, for the Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 statistical office. He was also consultant to the League of Nations
League of Nations

The League of Nations was an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?1920. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members....
. From 1945 till 1955 he served as the first director of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
CPB (Netherlands)

The CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis is an independent Netherlands government agency founded in 1945 by Jan Tinbergen. It is located in The Hague....
. Jan Tinbergen was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and of the International Academy of Science
International Academy of Science

There are at least two "International Academy of Science" organizations.One is located near Kansas City, MO, USA. It is NOT the subject of this article....
. In 1956 he founded the Econometric Institute at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam together with Henri Theil
Henri Theil

Henri Theil was a Dutch econometrics.He graduated from the University of Amsterdam. He was the successor of Jan Tinbergen at the Erasmus University Rotterdam....
, who also was his successor in Rotterdam. The Tinbergen Institute
Tinbergen Institute

The Tinbergen Institute is a joint institute for economics of the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit and the Erasmus University. The institute was founded in 1987 and it is named after the Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen....
 was named in his honour.

Work

Tinbergen became known for his 'Tinbergen Norm', which states that if the difference between the lowest and highest income in a company exceeds a rate of 1:5, that will not help the company and may indeed be counterproductive.

Tinbergen developed the first national comprehensive macroeconomic model
Model (macroeconomics)

A model in macroeconomics is a logical, mathematical, and/or computational framework designed to describe the operation of a national or regional economy, and especially the dynamics of aggregate quantities such as the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the le...
, which he first built for the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 and later applied to the United States
United States

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 and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
.

Tinbergen's work was later built on by Lawrence Klein
Lawrence Klein

Lawrence Robert Klein is an American economics. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980....
, contributing to another Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Nobel Prize in Economics

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
.

Literature


  • Centralization and decentralization in economic policy. - Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1981. - ISBN 0-313-23077-3
  • Der Dialog Nord-Süd : Informationen zur Entwicklungspolitik. - Frankfurt/M. : Europ. Verlagsanst., 1977
  • The dynamics of business cycles : a study in economic fluctuations. - Chicago, Ill. : Univ. Pr., 1974. - ISBN 0-226-80418-6
  • Economic policy : principles and design. - Amsterdam : North-Holland, 1978. - ISBN 0-7204-3129-8
  • Rompzy, Eric van: Jan Tinbergen. - Antwerpen : NBH, 1974


See also

  • List of economists
    List of economists

    This is an alphabetical list of notable economists, that is, experts in the social science of economics. There is also a separate list of politicians with economics training....


External links

  • in: Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland
  • Koninklijke Bibliotheek
  • (Dutch website)