Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen ($the Hague, April 12th 1903 - June 9th 1994), economist Dutch and prize winner, with Ragnar Frisch of the first “Nobel Prize” of economy decreed in 1969. It enseigait at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Jan Tinbergen is the brother of the ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of medicine in 1973.

Following studies of physics at the University of Leyde, it develops the first macroeconomic model within the Central Office of Statistics of the Netherlands, which it applies in first to the Netherlands then to the Company of the Nations (1936-38), to the the United States and the Great Britain the shortly after the Second world war.

Witness of the economic crisis of 1929, his work consists in finding solutions to avoid such future catastrophes.

In 1945, it takes the direction of the Central Office of Planning in $the Hague and becomes gradually a theorist of the Welfare state by recommending its intervention thanks to a powerful economic policy with the service of the social and individual wellbeing.

Its " regulate of Tinbergen" show that it is necessary to have as many measuring instruments as there are objectives to reach to make a success of an economic policy. This rule is stated in One the Theory off Economic Policy of 1952.

From 1966 to 1975, it chairs the Committee of the United Nations for planning and economic development.

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