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3 unusual facts about Ragnar Frisch


Joan Robinson

In 1949 she was invited by Ragnar Frisch to become the Vice President of the Econometric Society but declined, saying she couldn't be part of the editorial committee of a journal she couldn't read.

Nicola Acocella

Of specific interest is his reformulation (together with Giovanni Di Bartolomeo and Andrew Hughes Hallett) of the classical theory of economic policy laid down by Jan Tinbergen, Theil and Ragnar Frisch in a setting immune from Lucas critique.

Ragnar Frisch

The Frisch Medal, so named in his honor, is given every two years for the best paper published in the aforementioned Econometrica in the previous five years.



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