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Tjalling C. Koopmans (1910 - 1986)

Premio Nobel 1975

Tjalling Charles Koopmans nació en Gravelinas, Holanda. Al iniciarse la segunda guerra mundial, emigró a los Estados Unidos donde se nacionalizó. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Economía en 1975, compartido con el economista soviético Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich por sus contribuciones a la teoría de la óptima localización de recursos.

Koopmans estudió física y matemáticas en la Universidad de Utrecht y se doctoró en estadística y economía en la Universidad de Leiden. Fue asesor financiero de la Sociedad de Naciones en Ginebra (1938-1940). Ha sido profesor en las Universidades de Chicago (1946-1955) y Yale. Director de la Cowles Commission (1944-1954) y miembro de la Cowles Foundation en Yale (1961-1967).

OBRAS

• 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. Nederl. 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.
• Constancy and Constant Differences of Price Elasticities of Demand with H. Uzawa, 1990, in Chipman et al., editors, Preferences, Uncertainty, and Optimality