Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen in 1986

Paul Ehrenfest with his students, Leiden 1924. From left to right: Gerhard Heinrich Dieke, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit , Jan Tinbergen, Paul Ehrenfest, Ralph Kronig and Enrico Fermi .

Jan Tinbergen (born April 12, 1903 in The Hague , Netherlands ; † June 9, 1994 there ) was a Dutch mathematician and economist and, together with Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch , was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1969 .

Life

Tinbergen studied mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden . But his interest soon turned to political issues. In his doctoral thesis with Paul Ehrenfest , he combined mathematical methods with economic questions. He became a pioneer in mathematical modeling and econometrics .

From 1929 to 1945 he worked for the statistical office of the Netherlands. He also taught in Amsterdam in the early 1930s and in Rotterdam from 1933 to 1973 . He worked there as an editor for a trade journal in the field of business cycle analysis . In the late 1930s he was also an advisor to the League of Nations . From 1945 to 1955 he was head of the Centraal Planbureau . Later he built econometric models, including for the USA . After the flood disaster of 1953 , Tinbergen was appointed to the Delta Commission, which planned the Delta Works . In 1956 he founded the Econometrisch Instituut together with Henri Theil . Jan Tinbergen was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . In 1960 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1963 to the American Philosophical Society , 1969 to the British Academy and 1974 to the National Academy of Sciences .

In recognition of his services to econometric models, Jan Tinbergen received in 1969 together with Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch the prize for economics of the Swedish Reichsbank, which was awarded for the first time this year, in memory of Alfred Nobel (the official name of the " Nobel Prize for Economics"). His younger brother Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907–1988) received the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine , and his brother Luuk Tinbergen was Professor of Ecology at the University of Groningen .

Tinbergen died on June 9, 1994 in The Hague at the age of 91. His grave is in the Dutch cemetery Oud Eik en Duinen in The Hague .

Centralization and decentralization in economic policy . Amsterdam 1954; Reprint: Greenwood, Westport, CT 1981, ISBN 0-313-23077-3
with Jacques J. Polak: The dynamics of business cycles. A study in economic fluctuations. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. 1974, ISBN 0-226-80418-6
as editor: The North-South Dialogue. Information on development policy. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-434-00335-5
Economic policy. Principles and design. North-Holland Publ., Amsterdam 1978, ISBN 0-7204-3129-8

Eric van Rompzy: Jan Tinbergen . NBH, Antwerp 1974
David F. Hendry, Mary S. Morgan: Obituary: Jan Tinbergen, 1903-94. In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 159, No. 3, 1996, pp. 614-616 ( JSTOR 2983334 )
Peter A. Cornelisse, Herman K. van Dijk: Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994). Econometric Institute Report EI 2006-09 ( hdl: 1765/7580 )

Commons : Jan Tinbergen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ Member History: Jan Tinbergen. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 29, 2018 .
^ Fellows: Jan Tinbergen. British Academy, accessed August 8, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tinbergen, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch mathematician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	The Hague , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1994
Place of death	The Hague , Netherlands