Jan Tinbergen: Order

Jan Tinbergen was Dutch economist. Explore interesting quotes on order.

Jan Tinbergen: 42 quotes 22 likes

“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 after another throws of the yoke of colonialism. The wholesale introduction of Western techniques and ways of life shaking the foundations of numerous beliefs and attitudes, for good and for evil.”

Jan Tinbergen

Source: Shaping the world economy, 1962, p. 3 : Lead in paragraph "introducing the book"

Life , World , Way , Communication

“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 relative merits of various existing socio-economic orders, especially those of Eastern and Western Europe, including such interesting cases as Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. A considerable amount of better information about various types of external effects will be one of the necessary ingredients if we want to give concrete content to such merit rating of various systems.”

Jan Tinbergen

"The Use of Models: Experience," 1969

Hope , Way , Help

“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.”

Jan Tinbergen

Source: Income Distribution (1975), p. 148

Education , Sense

“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 universal human values”

Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen (1980), Reexamining the International Order Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980)

Lie , Universe , Country