Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch

Economist, Academic

1895 – 1973

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Who was Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch?

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was a Norwegian economist and the co-winner with Jan Tinbergen of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969. He is known for having founded the discipline of econometrics, and in 1933 to have created the widely used term pair macroeconomics/microeconomics.

Frisch was appointed by the King-in-Council as Professor of Economics and Statistics at the Faculty of Law, The Royal Frederick University in 1931. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law 1942–1943. Today, the Frisch Centre at the University of Oslo is named in his honour.

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Born
Mar 3, 1895
Oslo
Also known as
  • Ragnar Frisch
Nationality
  • Norway
Profession
Education
  • University of Oslo
Employment
  • University of Oslo
Lived in
  • Oslo
Died
Jan 31, 1973
Oslo

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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