When cleaning up my archives I came across a short article of April 1991 co-authored with Jan Tinbergen, on what the Soviet Union might learn from OECD countries in economics and politics. The article apparently never got published, partly since the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991. Jan...

The author considers the problem of the duration of development and its consequences for development assistance in the developing as well as developed countries. Emphasis is given to the influence of development aid, and it is argued that the time dimension has important policy implications and...

Dankzij zijn uitzonderlijke intellectuele talent en zijn uitermate heldere denk- en schrijfstijl, gecombineerd met een grote discipline en bescheidenheid, heeft Jan Tinbergen wereldwijd invloed uitgeoefend op het denken over economische politiek. Zijn levensmotto luidde: 'De economische...

"Economists are, in our day and age, best known as policy experts. This book is about one of them, Jan Tinbergen. He paved the way for this new type of economist. The economic expert is a government functionary, who works in service of the economic and social goals of government. The rise of the...

Originally published in 1951, this volume reprints the classic work written by one of the leading global econometricians. Econometrics is structured as followed: Part 1 explains the relationship of Econometrics to Economics and Statistics. Part 2 outlines the process of formulating economic...