Dutch economist (1903–1994)
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He built the first working models of entire economies — systems of equations that let governments test policy before enacting it. The machinery he invented turned economics from philosophy into engineering, and in 1969 it won him half of the first economics Nobel ever awarded.
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 foun…
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Mankind’s problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is a World Government. This can best be achieved by strengthening the United Nations system.
To Ehrenfest I owe a great deal. I studied physics at a time when a number of fascinating persons were there together.
For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.
The shaping or reformulation of the aims of economic policy which are only vaguely felt may be exemplified in the aim of social justice.
The world is in a process of a great transformation. In a considerable part of it a new economic order, "communism," is being vigorously tried out.
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