TINBERGEN, JAN

TINBERGEN, Jan: translation

(1903–1994)

Economist. Tinbergen was ap pointed professor at the School of Economics (now Erasmus Uni versity) in Rotterdam in 1933, which chair he held until 1973. In 1945, he became director of the Dutch Centraal Planbureau (CPB, Central Planning Bureau), too. He also wrote extensively on econom etry and economic policy, and on the problems of war and peace. Tin bergen was awarded, with Ragnar Frisch, the first Nobel Prize for economics in 1969.