Housing and Financial Policy

Abstract

guiding spirit behind a program for world economic development sponsored by the Club of Rome. His committee of twenty experts from both industrialized and developing countries will issue a report in 1976, which is expected to cover not only development problems, but questions of food, trade, and world peace. Jan Tinbergen is an unassuming man, who does not trumpet his achievements to the world. He almost never criticizes colleagues. He could earn substantial personal income with his talents, but instead he has chosen to devote himself to the service of others. He does not drive a car, but takes a bus or tram to work. He has been known to thank his undergraduate students for selecting his courses. He has studied many languages, mainly in order to communicate better with those he has worked with in many parts of the world. (He learned Norwegian, for example, in order to have full access to the work of Ragnar Frisch.) He is fond of drawing. He believes in human dignity. And he lives by that belief.