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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jan Tinbergen was born in the Netherlands on 12 April 1903. He developed the first macroeconometric models — mathematical frameworks that captured how economies actually moved — and solved the identification problem that had stalled earlier attempts to read causation from data. In 1945 he founded the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, serving as its first director and proving that his models could guide real policy. The work earned him the inaugural Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, shared with Ragnar Frisch for applying dynamic models to economic processes. He became a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. He died on 9 June 1994, widely considered one of the founding fathers of econometrics and among the most influential economists of the twentieth century.