Books in the HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MOD series

"This book is a collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR's socialism. Born in the early 1930s, formed during the Thaw, having careers behind the wall, and retiring with their state in 1990, they were GDR's hope generation"--

This is the first biographical treatment of Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel Prize Winner in Economics. It analyzes his youthful socialist ideals and involvement in Plan-socialism and how it gave rise to his pioneering econometric models and his seminal theory of economic policy. It situates his work within the rise of modern economic expertise.