Born: 12-Apr-1903
Birthplace: The Hague, Netherlands
Died: 9-Jun-1994
Location of death: The Hague, Netherlands
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Economist

Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Economic Policy

Brother of Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Father: Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen (school principal, b. 1874)
Mother: Jeannette van Eek
Brother: Nikolaas Tinbergen (zoologist)
Brother: Luuk Tinbergen (ornithologist, b. 7-Sep-1916, d. 1-Sep-1955)

    University: PhD Physics, University of Leiden (1929)
    Professor: Economics, Erasmus University (1933-73)
    Professor: University of Leiden (1973-75)

    Erasmus Prize 1967
    Nobel Prize for Economics 1969 (with Ragnar Frisch)

Author of books:
Statistical Testing of Business Cycles (1938)
Business Cycles in the USA, 1919-32 (1939)
Econometrics (1942)
Business Cycles in the UK, 1870-1914 (1951)
On the Theory of Economic Policy (1952)
Centralization and Decentralization in Economic Policy (1954)
Economic Policy: Principles and Design (1956)
Shaping the World Economy (1962)
Income Distribution (1975)

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