Tjalling Koopmans
Tjalling C. Koopmans | |
|---|---|
University of Leiden | |
| Known for | Transport economics Hitchcock–Koopmans transportation problem Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model Koopmans' theorem |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1975) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics, Physics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Kramers Jan Tinbergen |
| Doctoral students | Carl Christ Stanley Reiter Rolf Mantel Guillermo Calvo |
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a
Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources. Koopmans showed that on the basis of certain efficiency criteria, it is possible to make important deductions concerning optimum price systems.
Biography
Koopmans was born in
Hendrik Kramers. The title of the thesis was "Linear regression analysis of economic time series".[1] He also worked for the Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations.[2]
: 28
Koopmans moved to the
Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3] In 1950 he became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] Rising hostile opposition to the Cowles Commission by the department of economics at University of Chicago during the 1950s led Koopmans to convince the Cowles family to move it to Yale University in 1955 (where it was renamed the Cowles Foundation). He continued to publish, on the economics
of optimal growth and activity analysis.
Koopmans's early works on the
John Denis Sargan and Alok Bhargava
(Sargan and Bhargava, 1983).
Family and name
Tjalling Charles Koopmans was a son of Sjoerd Koopmans and Wytske van der Zee; his middle name Charles was probably derived from his patronymic "Sjoerds".[5]
One of Sjoerd Koopmans's sisters, Gatske Koopmans, and her husband Symon van der Meer were the paternal grandparents of Nobel Prize winner
first cousins once removed
.
Tjalling had two brothers, one of whom was
German occupation of the Netherlands, wrote the widely distributed pamphlet "Bijna te laat" ("Almost too late", 30,000 copies), warning about the future of the Jews under the Nazi regime.[8] In 1945, towards the end of the war, he witnessed an execution of hostages in Amsterdam from behind a window and was mortally wounded by a stray bullet.[9][10]
Selected works
- Koopmans, Tjalling C. (March 1942). "Serial correlation and quadratic forms in normal variables". JSTOR 2236158.
- Koopmans, Tjalling C.; Montias, J.M. (1971). "On the Description and Comparison of Economic Systems".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Cowles Foundation Paper No. 357. - Koopmans, Tjalling C. (December 11, 1975). Nobel Memorial Lecture: Concepts of optimality and their uses (PDF).
- Koopmans, Tjalling C.; S2CID 206799604.
Further reading
- Hughes Hallett, Andrew J. (1989). "Econometrics and the Theory of Economic Policy: The Tinbergen–Theil Contributions 40 Years On". Oxford Economic Papers. 41 (1): 189–214. JSTOR 2663189.
- JSTOR 1912252.
See also
References
- ^ Tjalling Koopmans (1936). "Linear regression analysis of economic time series" (PDF).
- SSRN 2173443
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
- ^ "T.C. Koopmans (1910 - 1985)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Ruurd Koopmans. De Macht van Twee: Kwartierstaat van de kinderen van Hendrik Koopmans en Minke Jager (in Dutch).
- ^ "Ancestors of Tjalling Koopmans". Family Affairs. 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
- ISBN 978-90-6550-694-8.
- ISBN 978-1571134936.
- ISBN 9789045005195.
- ^ Koopmans, Tjalling Charles (1975). "Tjalling C. Koopmans - Biographical". Nobel Media AB 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
External links
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- Tjalling Koopmans on Nobelprize.org
- Scarf, Herbert E., "Tjalling Charles Koopmans: August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985", National Academy of Science
- IDEAS/RePEc
- Tjalling Koopmans at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Tjalling Charles Koopmans (1910–1985). )
- Biography of Tjalling Koopmans from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- Tjalling Charles Koopmans Papers (MS 1439). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
