{"id":106981,"date":"2019-12-16T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?post_type=dossier&p=106981"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:37","slug":"50-years-after-tinbergens-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"em_special","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/specials\/50-years-after-tinbergens-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years after Tinbergen’s Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan Tinbergen is still one of the best-known Dutch economists. On December 10, 1969 he received the first Nobel Prize in economics. Tinbergen has been part of the (forerunner of) Erasmus University since 1933. Forty years later he retired. The Nobel Prize winner is seen as the founding father of the Econometrics and he was one of the founders of the Dutch Centraal Planbureau. In this special we look back on various aspects of Tinbergen’s work.<\/p>\n

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Fifty years after Jan Tinbergen\u2019s Nobel Prize, there are still tangible memories of Rotterdam\u2019s most famous professor everywhere on campus.\u00a0Searching for traces of Rotterdam\u2019s most famous economist, using a photo album, thousands of sheets of paper and the ticket that Tinbergen used to travel through Stockholm in the week of the award ceremony.<\/p>\n

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