First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 276 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers with single blind fillet borders, top edge in blue, dust jacket (just a hint of faint spotting to front free endpaper, neat pencilled ownership inscription to half title, contents otherwise clean and fresh; minor wear to jacket with a few tiny nicks and short closed tears to extremities, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956.
Tinbergen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969 jointly with Ragnar Frisch for his services to econometric modelling and measurement. In 1945, ‘Tinbergen was appointed Director of the newly established Netherlands Central Planning Bureau and turned his attention to the problem of policy making. On the Theory of Economic Policy (1952) and Centralization in Economic Policy (1954) were capped by Economic Policy: Principles and Design (1956)’ the core tenants of which are ‘now common parlance among policy-makers everywhere’ (Blaug).
