ECONOMIST

Jan Tinbergen

1903 - 1994

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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. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics. His important contributions to econometrics include the development of the first macroeconometric models, the solution of the identification problem, and the understanding of dynamic models. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Tinbergen has received more than 318,099 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Tinbergen is the 35th most popular economist (up from 43rd in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 70th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Economist.

Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who won the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969. He is most famous for his work on econometrics and the use of game theory to understand economic decision-making.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jan Tinbergen ranks 35 out of 414. Before him are Michael Porter, Herbert A. Simon, Barack Obama Sr., William Petty, Elinor Ostrom, and Ragnar Frisch. After him are Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, Karl Polanyi, Frédéric Bastiat, Robert Solow, and Maurice Allais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Jan Tinbergen ranks 19. Before him are Yasujirō Ozu, Marguerite Yourcenar, Vladimir Horowitz, Adolf Butenandt, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Kane Tanaka. After him are Anaïs Nin, Mustafa Barzani, Galeazzo Ciano, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hugo Theorell, and Hans Jonas. Among people deceased in 1994, Jan Tinbergen ranks 24. Before him are Melina Mercouri, Kurt Cobain, Mas Oyama, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Léon Degrelle, and Paul Feyerabend. After him are Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Debord, Paul Delvaux, Telly Savalas, Domenico Modugno, and Robert Doisneau.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Tinbergen ranks 61 out of 1,646. Before him are Michiel de Ruyter (1607), William II, Prince of Orange (1626), Sylvia Kristel (1952), Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Han van Meegeren (1889), and Frederick de Houtman (1571). After him are Pieter de Hooch (1629), Simon van der Meer (1925), Johan de Witt (1625), Gerrit Rietveld (1888), Ronald Koeman (1963), and Jacob Roggeveen (1659).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Netherlands

Among economists born in Netherlands, Jan Tinbergen ranks 1. After him are Bernard Mandeville (1670), Tjalling Koopmans (1910), Mark Blaug (1927), Guido Imbens (1963), and Euclid Tsakalotos (1960).

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