Tjalling Koopmans

Tjalling Koopmans (1910-1986)

Tjalling Charles Koopmans nasceu em Gravelines, Holanda em 1910. No início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, ele emigrou para os Estados Unidos, onde ele foi naturalizado. Ele ganhou o Prémio Nobel de Economia em 1975, partilhado com o economista soviético Leonid Kantorovich Vitaliyevich pelas suas contribuições para a teoria da alocação ótima de recursos.

Tjalling Koopmans estudou física e matemática na Universidade de Utrecht e obteve um doutoramento em estatística e economia na Universidade de Leiden. Foi consultor financeiro para a Liga das Nações em Genebra (1938-1940). Ele ensinou nas Universidades de Chicago (1946-1955) e Yale. Diretor da Comissão de Cowles (1944-1954) e membro da Fundação Cowles em Yale (1961-1967).

Principais obras e papers

• Linear Regression Analysis of Economic Time Series, 1937.
• “The Logic of Econometric Business Cycle Research”, 1941, JPE.
• “Statistical Estimation of Simultaneous Economic Relations”, 1945, JASA.
• “Measurement without Theory”, 1947, REStat.
• “A Reply to Vining”, 1949, REStat.
• “Identification Problems in Economic Model Construction” 1949, Econometrica
• “Optimum Utilization of the Transportation System”, 1949, Proceedings of the International Statistical Conference
• “The Econometric Approach to Business Fluctuations”, 1949, AER.
• “Utility Analysis of Decisions Affecting Future Well-Being”, 1950, Econometrica
• Editor of Statistical Inference in Dynamic Economic Models, 1950.
• “The Identification of Structural Characteristics” with O. Reiersol, 1950, Annals of Mathematical Statistics
• “Efficient Allocation of Resources”, 1951, Econometrica.
• “A Model of Transportation”, with S.Reiter, in Koopmans, 1951.
• “Analysis of Production as an Efficient Combination of Activities”, in Koopmans, 1951.
• Editor of Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation, 1951.
• “Activity Analysis and Its Applications”, 1953, AER.
• Three Essays on the State of Economic Science, 1957.
• “Assignment Problems and the Location of Economic Activities” with M.J. Beckmann, 1957, Econometrica
• “Water Storage Policy in a Simplified Hydroelectric System” 1957, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Operational Research
• “Selected Topics in Economics Involving Mathematical Reasoning” with A.F. Bausch, 1959, SIAM Review
• “Stationary Ordinal Utility and Impatience”, 1960, Econometrica.
• “Convexity Assumptions, Allocative Efficiency and Competitive Equilibrium”, 1961, JPE.
• “On Flexibility of Future Preferences”, 1964 in Bryan and Shelley, editors, Human Judgments and Optimality.
• “Economic Growth at a Maximal Rate”, 1964, QJE.
• “Stationary Utility and Time Preference”, with P. Diamond and R.E. Williamson, 1964, Econometrica.
• On the Existence of a Subinvariant Measure” with R.E. Williamson, 1964, Proceedings of Konnikl. Akad. van Wetenschappen
• “On the Concept of Optimal Economic Growth”, 1965, Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia
• “Intertemporal Distribution and Optimal Aggregate Economic Growth”, 1967, in Fellner, editor, Ten Economic Studies in the Tradition of Irving Fisher.
• “Objectives, Constraints and Outcomes in Optimal Growth Models”, 1967, Econometrica.
• “Note on a Social System Composed of Hierarchies with Overlapping Personnel”, 1969, Orbis Economicus.
• “Maximizing Stationary Utility in a Constant Technology” with R. Beals, 1969, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics
• Scientific Papers of Tjalling C. Koopmans, Volume I, 1970.
• “A Model of a Continuing State with Scarce Capital”, 1971, ZfN
• “On the Description and Comparison of Economic Systems” with J.M. Montias, 1971, in Eckstein, editor, Comparison of Economic Systems.
• “On the Definition and Computation of a Capital Stock Invariant Under Optimization”, with T. Hansen, 1972, JET
• “Representation of Preference Ordering with Independent Components of Consumption”, 1972, in McGuire and Radner, editors, Decision and Organization.
• “Representation of Preference Orderings Over Time”, 1972, in McGuire and Radner, editors, Decision and Organization.
• “Some Observations on Optimal Economic Growth and Exhaustible Resources”, 1973, in Bos et al, editors, Economic Structure and Development.
• “Is the Theory of Competitive Equilibrium With It?”, 1974, AER.
• “Proof for a Case where Discounting Advances Doomsday”, 1974, RES.
• “Concepts of Optimality and their Uses”, 1977, AER.
• “Examples of Production Relations Based on Microdata”, 1977, in G.C. Harcourt, editor, Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics
• “Economics Among the Sciences”, 1979, AER.
• “The Transition from Exhaustible to Renewable or Inexhaustible Resources”, 1981, in Economic Growth and Resources
• “Additively Decomposed Quasiconcave Functions”, with G. Debreu, 1982, Mathematical Programming.
• Scientific Papers of Tjalling C. Koopmans, Volume II, 1985.

References:

Karier, Thomas (2011). Intellectual Capital – Forty years of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.