Jan Tinbergen

Biography
Jan Tinbergen was the eldest of five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek. Work

Tinbergen became known for his 'Tinbergen Norm' which is the principle that if the difference between the least and greatest income in a company exceeds a rate of 1:5 that will not help the company and may be counterproductive. At that time CBS establiJan Tinbergend a new department of business surveys and mathematical statistics and Tinbergen became its first chairman working at CBS until 1945.

Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. Jan Tinbergen (April 12 1903 – June 9 1994) was a Dutch economist.