Jan Tinbergen

"First of all I want to remind you of the essential features of models. In my opinion they are: drawing up a list of the variables to be considered; drawing up a list of the equations or relations the …"

"It is also our hope that the interpretation of the socio-economic optimum as a set of institutions may help to get under way a discussion of a more scientific character than was usual so far about the…"

"The main sources of tension in today's world economy could be grouped under the following categories:"

"The world is in a process of a great transformation. In a considerable part of it a new economic order, "communism," is being vigorously tried out. Elsewhere an old order is passing as one country aft…"

"A just social order can best be described as a humanist socialism, because its goal would be the establishment of equal possibilities within and between all countries, and at its base would lie univer…"

"The shaping or reformulation of the aims of economic policy which are only vaguely felt may be exemplified in the aim of social justice."

"The two preponderant forces at work are technological development, which made for a relative increase in demand and hence in the income ratio... and increased access to schooling, which made for a rel…"

"For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind."