Ragnar Anton Kittil Fresh

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Ragnar Fresh

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (born March 3, 1895 in Christiania, today Oslo , † January 31, 1973 ) was a Norwegian economist and, together with Jan Tinbergen , was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 1969 .

Life

Frisch studied economics at the University of Oslo , then went to Paris and England . In 1925 he earned a doctorate in mathematical statistics . He has been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo. In 1931 he became a professor. In 1932 he founded the Rockefeller-funded Institute of Economics there and became its research director. On December 29, 1930, he founded the Econometric Society with Fisher and Roos , which is regarded as the birth of econometrics .

Frisch's granddaughter is the Norwegian TV presenter Nadia Hasnaoui .

Services

For his analysis of economic processes and the development of dynamic economic models, he and Jan Tinbergen received the Prize for Economics of the Swedish Reichsbank in 1969 in memory of Alfred Nobel . Since 1952 he was socio straniero of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, which awarded him the international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize in 1960 . Also in 1960 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1966 he became a corresponding member of the British Academy . Since 1970 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

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The fresh elasticity of the job offer is named after him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Member History: Ragnar A. Frisch. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fresh, Ragnar Anton Kittil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1973