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Jan Tinbergen

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Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) was a Dutch economist, joint winner with Ragnar Frisch of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded in 1969, for developing and applying dynamic economic models. A founder of econometrics, he built early macroeconometric models of the Dutch economy and later worked on development planning and income distribution. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1903-04-12 1
Death Date
1994-06-09 1
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Dutch 1
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Ragnar Frisch, Economists

Why this is disputed. Tinbergen's econometric modelling drew a lively multi-party methodological debate naming Frisch directly; the two also shared the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1969) for jointly developing dynamic economic models. First direct edge between them on this atlas; both were hollow (in-category only) before this row.

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Jan Tinbergen ( TIN-bur-gən, Dutch: [jɑn ˈtɪmbɛrɣə(n)]; 12 April 1903 – 9 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.
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    He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.
  • Infobox, Born field
    12 April 1903
  • Infobox, Died field
    9 June 1994
  • In Group: Mathematical Economists and Econometricians, Lead
    He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics.
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Wikimedia FoundationDebated With: Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Econometrics section
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Tinbergen's econometric modelling lead to a lively debate with several known participants including J.M. Keynes, Ragnar Frisch and Milton Friedman.
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History of Economic Thought Website (New School): Jan Tinbergen
History of Economic Thought Website (New School)Associated With School: Keynesian Economics, Profile text
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Tinbergen pioneered econometrics in the late 1930s, applying new statistical techniques mainly to Neo-Keynesian macroeconomic models
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