Dekker on Tinbergen

Today’s episode was recorded in October 2022 at the Market and Society conference. Our honoured guest is Dr. Erwin Dekker. Dr. Dekker is a historian and economist working at the the intersection of culture and economics. He has worked for almost a decade in the department of cultural economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Dr. Dekker recently put out an impressive biography on Noble Laurette Jan Tinbergen. We highly recommend you pick that up, and today’s talk will give you a good idea why.

In season 1 (Danish) we reviewed the history of economic thought before WWII. The coming seasons are dedicated to the Nobel Prize in Economics, and I am joined by economist Otto Brøns-Petersen. The Nobel prize is a good benchmark for how the field and profession of economics developed after WWII. We will focus both on the scientific contributions and on the people behind them. These are all star economists and worthy of your time and attention. Some will mainly feature in one episode, others in several. We therefore advice that you listen in the thematic order we propose – but it is up to you. Rest assured, we will cover all… Eventually.

References:

Dekker, E. (2021). Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise. Cambridge University Press.