On Nobel laureates and the study of policy instruments Available to Purchase

Hundred years ago, on April 12, 1903, Jan Tinbergen was born. He was, together with Ragnar Frish, the first Nobel laureate in economics. He received in 1969 the Nobel Prize for ‘constructing mathematical models relating strategic economic relations, and then to specify these quantitatively with the help of statistics’. During the Tinbergenweek last April, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Rotterdam School of Economics have honoured Tinbergen (1903–1994) as a man of ideals, as can be read on the website www.tinbergenweek.nl. Among the activities during this week was a scientific congress, a colloquium with Nobel Prize winners and the presentation...