TINBERGEN, Jan.

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Minimumproblemen in de natuurkunde en die ekonomie. First edition, trade issue, of Tinbergen's doctoral thesis, the earliest published application of the author's mathematical theories to economics. "Tinbergen studied physics and mathematics at the University of Leiden under the supervision of the physicist Paul Ehrenfest, a personal friend of Albert Einstein. During his studenthood, Tinbergen's concern for social issues developed after meeting the poor of Leiden, and his commitment to poverty relief would last throughout his whole career. He joined the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1922... Since Tinbergen felt that he could serve the socialist cause better as an economist than as a physician, he engaged in the study of economics through self-learning. His PhD thesis (1929), on the similarity between minimum problems in physics and economics, marks this transition" (Besomi, p. 429). In 1969 Tinbergen was the first to obtain the Nobel Prize in economics.

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