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Article: Jan Tinbergen Dies; Won First Nobel Prize Awarded in Economics
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- The Washington Post
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- June 14, 1994
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Jan Tinbergen, 91, a Dutch economist and pioneer in
econometrics who was co-winner of the first Nobel Prize in Economic
Science in 1969, died June 9 in Amsterdam. The cause of death was
not reported.
Dr. Tinbergen and Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch were
awarded their Nobel Prize "for having developed and applied dynamic
models for the analysis of economic processes," according to the
Nobel committee.
Upon learning of Dr. Tinbergen and Frisch's award, Paul
Samuelson, an American who won a later Nobel Prize in economics,
hailed them as "path breakers, giants in their field" for their
application of mathematics to economic analysis.
Much of the work of Dr. Tinbergen and Frisch, which ...