Koopmans, Tjalling Charles (tyäl`ĭng, k
p`mäns, –mənz), 1910–85, American economist, b. Graveland, the Netherlands. Raised and educated in the Netherlands, he came to the United States in 1940 and became interested in the economics of transport costs while working for the British Merchant Shipping Mission. He was a professor of economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1944–55) and Yale Univ. (1955–81). As a result of his work on the allocation of resources, he shared the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Kantorovich Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalyevich , 1912–86, Soviet economist and mathematician, b. St. Petersburg, Russia. A professor at Leningrad State Univ. (1934–60), he later served (1971–76) as director of the mathematical economics laboratory at the Moscow
..... Click the link for more information. . He wrote Three Essays on the State of Economic Science (1957).
p`mäns, –mənz), 1910–85, American economist, b. Graveland, the Netherlands. Raised and educated in the Netherlands, he came to the United States in 1940 and became interested in the economics of transport costs while working for the British Merchant Shipping Mission. He was a professor of economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1944–55) and Yale Univ. (1955–81). As a result of his work on the allocation of resources, he shared the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Kantorovich Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalyevich , 1912–86, Soviet economist and mathematician, b. St. Petersburg, Russia. A professor at Leningrad State Univ. (1934–60), he later served (1971–76) as director of the mathematical economics laboratory at the Moscow..... Click the link for more information. . He wrote Three Essays on the State of Economic Science (1957).
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