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 …"

"Educational policies deserve to be programmed not only with a view to improving education in the widest sense, but also in order to ináuence the income distribution."

"Models constitute a framework or a skeleton and the flesh and blood will have to be added by a lot of common sense and knowledge of details."

"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 factor of distance may also stand for an index of information about export markets."

"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 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."