Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise - Erwin Dekker

Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise

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Buch | Hardcover
484 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49599-8 (ISBN)
43,60 inkl. MwSt
This is the first biographical treatment of Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel Prize Winner in Economics. It analyzes his youthful socialist ideals and involvement in Plan-socialism and how it gave rise to his pioneering econometric models and his seminal theory of economic policy. It situates his work within the rise of modern economic expertise.
Jan Tinbergen was the first Nobel Prize winner in Economics and one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. This book argues that his crucial contribution is the theory of economic policy and the legitimation of economic expertise in service of the state. It traces his youthful socialist ideals which found political direction in the Plan-socialist movement of the 1930s for which he developed new economic models to combat the Great Depression. After World War II he was able to synthesize that work into a theory of economic policy which not only provided a lasting framework for economic policy around the world, but also secured a permanent place for economic experts close to government. The book then turns to an examination of his attempt to repeat this achievement in the development projects in the Global South and at the international level for the United Nations.

Erwin Dekker is Assistant Professor of Cultural Economics at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. He is the author of The Viennese Students of Civilization (Cambridge, 2016), which won the award for Best Book in Austrian Economics.

Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the rise of economic expertise; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Becoming an Economic Expert: 1. The construction of peace; 2. A progressive education; 3. The bourgeois socialist; 4. From Ehrenfest to the econometric society; 5. Hendrick de Man and Jan Tinbergen; 6. Macro-dynamics and the problem of unemployment; 7. The rise of the Volkspartei (People's Party) and the economics of the general interest; Part II. The Years of High Expertise: 8. From The Hague to Geneva: the world order of the League of Nations; 9. Fascism at home; 10. Tinbergen's theory of economic policymaking; 11. The expert in the model, the economist outside the model; Part III. Global Expertise: 12. Opening up Vista's: India and the world; 13. Development economics on paper; 14. Development planning on the ground: Tinbergen in Turkey; 15. Sometime the twain shall meet: the optimal order; 16. Expertise far from home; Part IV. The Limits of Expertise: 17. Measuring the unmeasurable: welfare and justice; 18. Governing the ungovernable: can we govern the planet; 19. Making peace, finding peace.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 850 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wirtschaft Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-108-49599-0 / 1108495990
ISBN-13 978-1-108-49599-8 / 9781108495998
Zustand Neuware
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