Anton Barten

Anton Peter Barten (14 January 1930 – 15 June 2016)[1][2] was a Dutch economist.

Anton Barten
Born(1930-01-14)14 January 1930
Died15 June 2016(2016-06-15) (aged 86)
FieldEconometrics
Alma materErasmus University Rotterdam
Doctoral
advisor		Henri Theil

Barten was born in Amsterdam.[1] He studied economics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.[3] He worked at the Econometric Institute at the same university in the late 1950s. He there developed in interest in consumer demand.[4] In 1966 Barten started working at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Leuven, Belgium, which had been set up by Jacques Drèze.[5]

In the late 1980s Barten was involved in setting up the Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University (centER) in the Netherlands. He became the first director of the center. Barten later returned to Leuven, to take up a position at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.[6] In 2008 Barten was awarded the Tjalling Koopmans medal by Tilburg University for his role in the foundation of centER.[7]

Barten became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984.[8] He became member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.[9] He was a Fellow of the Econometric Society.[10] Barten died in Leuven.[2][11]

References
  1. Barten, A.P. in De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008, p. 251.
  2. "De heer Anton Barten" (PDF) (in Dutch). pues.be. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  3. Harry van Dalen (1994) De kwaliteit van Nederlandse economische onderzoekers, Economisch Statistische Berichten: Algemeen Weekblad voor Handel, Nijverheid, Financiën en Verkeerr, 79(3990), 1168-1171.
  4. H. Theil (31 January 1996). Studies in Global Econometrics. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-7923-3660-0.
  5. Ivo Maes & Erik Buyst (March 2005). "Migration and Americanization: The special case of Belgian economics" (PDF). Euro J. History of Economic Thought. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  6. Frank van den Nieuwenhuijzen (8 January 2015). "CentER zette wetenschap op zijn kop" (in Dutch). Univers. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  7. "Newsletter Tilburg School of Economics and Management". Tilburg University. 18 June 2008. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  8. "Anton Barten". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 21 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  9. "Anton Barten". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  10. "Prof Anton P Barten". The Econometric Society. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  11. OBITUARY Anton Barten (1930-2016)
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