What is Jan Tinbergen?
{{nobelprize|Economics}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jan Tinbergen | image = Jan Tinbergen 1982.jpg | caption = Jan Tinbergen in 1982 | image_size = 230px | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|4|12|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[The Hague]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|6|9|1903|4|12|mf=y}} | death_place = The Hague | nationality = [[Netherlands]] | field = [[Economics]] | work_institution = [[Erasmus University]] | alma_mater = [[Leiden University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Paul Ehrenfest]] | doctoral_students = [[Tjalling Koopmans]] | known_for = First national [[macroeconomic model]] | influences = [[Oskar R. Lange]] | influenced = | prizes = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (1969) }} '''Jan Tinbergen''' (April 12, 1903 &ndash; June 9, 1994) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[economist]]. He won the first [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] with [[Ragnar Frisch]]. ==Early life== Tinbergen was born on April 12, 1903 at [[The Hague]]. He studied at [[Leiden University]]. ==Nobel Prize== He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969. He shared the award with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of [[economic]] [[business process|processes]]. Tinbergen was a founding trustee of [[Economists for Peace and Security]]. ==Tinbergen's debate== Tinbergen’s econometric picture lead to a debate between other several known economists such as [[J.M. Keynes]], [[Ragnar Frisch]] and [[Milton Friedman]]. The debate is sometimes called the [[Tinbergen debate]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Leeson, R.|year=1998|title=The Ghosts I Called I Can't Get Rid of Now: the Keynes-Tinbergen-Friedman-Phillips Critique of Keynesian Macroeconometrics|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_history-of-political-economy_spring-1998_30_1/page/51|journal=History of Political Economy|volume= 30|issue=1|pages= 51–94|doi=10.1215/00182702-30-1-51}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Louçã, F.|doi=10.1080/10427719900000074|url=http://courses.umass.edu/econ804/L