Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 13/9/52
Gerhard Tintner (1907-1983)
Papers, 1938-2002, n.d.


Descriptive summary

creator:

Tintner, Gerhard (1907-1983)
title:

Papers
dates:

1938-2002, n.d.
extent:

0.84 linear ft. (2 document boxes)
collection number:

RS 13/9/52
repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research
publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:

Gerhard Tintner Papers, RS 13/9/52, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Gerhard Tintner was born to Leopold and Karoline Tintner in Nuremberg, Germany, on September 29, 1907. He received his Ph.D. (1929) from the University of Vienna. He studied at the London School of Economics (1939) and held a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1934-1936) for which he studied at Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley. He also studied economics at the Institut Henri Poincaré in France and at Cambridge in England.

Tintner was a staff member at the Austrian Institute for Trade Cycle Research in Vienna (1936) and was a Research Fellow at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics (1936). Tintner joined the staff of Iowa State College (University) as Assistant Professor (1937-1939) of economics and mathematics. He was promoted to Associate Professor (1939-1946) and Professor (1946-1962) of economics, mathematics, and statistics. Tintner resigned from Iowa State University in 1962 and joined the staff of the University of Pittsburgh. In 1963, he accepted a position as Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of Southern California. He accepted an appointment as Professor and Head (1973-1978) of the Institut fur Okonometrie, University of Vienna, a position he held until retirement.

The main focus of Tintner's research was in economic theory and its relationship with statistics and mathematics. Between 1930 and 1960, he was a major figure in the econometrics movement which redefined the study of economics. His book, Econometrics, helped shape teaching programs in many countries. Tintner also authored several other books and numerous publications on this and related topics.

During his time at Iowa State, Tintner served as consultant to the Office of Strategic Services (1942) in Washington, D.C., as Associate of the Office of European Economic Research (1943) in New York City, and as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1944) in Washington, D.C. He was the recipient of a Ford Foundation grant (1956-1957) which allowed him to spend a year at the University of Vienna, Austria, as a visiting professor. Throughout his career Tintner traveled to numerous countries giving lectures and teaching seminars.

Tintner was a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Statistical Association. He served as associate editor for several economics books and journals. Tintner held honorary memberships in Phi Beta Kappa and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of the John R. Commons Award (1969) given by Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Honor Society in Economics, and was also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Rerum Politicarum Honoris Causa from the Friedrichs Wilhelm University in Bonn, Germany.

Gerhard Tintner married Leontine Roosevelt Camprubi of New York City in 1941. Together they had one child, Phillip. Gerhard Tintner died November 13, 1983, in Vienna, Austria.

 

Collection description

This collection (1938-2002, n.d.) contains biographical information and published articles related to the career of Gerhard Tintner. Biographical materials include Iowa State University faculty information forms, news clippings, biographical sketches, and bibliographies. The collection also contains copies and reprints of many of Tintner's published research articles on econometrics and economic theory, a book review, and an untitled manuscript on probability and statistics.

 

Organization

This collection is organized alphabetically with biographical material at the front.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Biographical information

1947-2002, n.d.

1

3

Article: "Abraham Wald"

n.d.
2 38 Article: "Abraham Wald's Contributions to Econometrics" 1952

1

4

Article: "Algunos Aspectos de la Economia Estocastica"

n.d.

1

5

Article: "Angebots und Nachfragefunktionen für einige Fleischsorten in Österreich"

1958
2 39 Article: "Application of Decision Theory of Probability to a Simple Inventory Problem" 1959

1

6

Article: "Application of the Diffusion Processes in Problems of Developmental Economic Planning"

1976

1

7

Article: "Application of the Theory of Information to the Problem of Weighted Regression"

n.d.

1

8

Article: "An Application of the Variate Difference Method on the Permanent Income Hypothesis"

n.d.

1

9

Article: "Eine Produktionsfunktion für Österreich mit Verschiedenen Energiearten"

n.d.

1

10

Article: "Complementarity and Shifts in Demand"

1952

1

12

Article: "A Contribution to the Nonstatic Theory of Production"

1942

1

13

Article: "Control Theory: Balance and Perspective"

n.d.
2 40 Article: "Definition of Econometrics" 1953

1

14

Article: "Der Wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriff von Abraham Wald"

n.d.

1

15

Article: "Die Anwendung der Diffusionsprozesse bei Problemen der Wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsplanung"

n.d.

1

16

Article: "Die Anwendung von Transformationen bei der Schätzung Ökonometrischer Beziehungen"

n.d.

1

17

Article: "The Distribution of the Variances of Variate Differences in the Circular Case"

1955

1

18

Article: "Econometrics" (English and Spanish and Portuguese translations)

1953

1

19

Article: "Econometric Models for Several European Economies, the United States and Canada"

1960

1

20

Article: "Ein Beitrag zur nicht-statischen Werttheorie"

1954

1

21

Article: "Ein Energiekrisenmodell"

n.d.

1

22

Article: "Eine Empirische Untersuchung mit Anwendung der Methode prinzipieller Komponenten"

1974

1

23

Article: "Einige Aspekte der Statistischen Behandlung Ökonomischer Zeitreihen"

1976
2 41 Article: "Einkommenselastizitäten im Österreichischen Konsum" 1959

1

24

Article: "An Empirical Investigation of Private Energy Demand by Using the Method of Principal Components"

n.d.

1

25

Article: "External Economies in Consumption"

1960

1

26

Article: "Foundations of Probability and Statistical Inference"

1949

1

27

Article: "Game Theory, Linear Programming and Input-Output Analysis"

1952

1

28

Article: "Homogeneous Systems in Mathematical Economics"

1948

1

29

Article: "Information Theory and the Statistical Estimation of Econometric Relations"

n.d.

1

30

Article: "Konsumfunktionen für Österreich- eine Analyse der Stabilität der Erklärung des privaten Konsums durch makroökonomische Konsumtheorien"

n.d.

1

31

Article: "La Teoria dei Giochi la Programmazione Lineare e L'analisi delle Interdipendenze Strutturali"

1957

1

32

Article: "Les Programmes Linéaires Stochatiques"

1957

1

33

Article: "Linear Economics and the Boehm-Bawerk Period of Production"

1974

1

34

Article: "A Macro Model of the Economy for the Explanation of Trend and Business Cycle with Applications to India"

n.d.

1

35

Article: "Makroökonomisches Modell für Österreich"

n.d.

1

36

Article: "Marginalism and Linear Economics East and West"

n.d.

1

37

Article: "Some Stochastic Aspects of Planning" in Mathematical Theory in Soviet Planning

1976

1

38

Article: "Mathematics and Statistics for Economists"

1954

1

39

Article: "Mathematische Programmierung und ihre Anwendung auf die Wirtschaft"

1973

1

40

Article: "Eine neue Methode für die Schätzung dor logistischen Funktion"

1958

1

41

Article: "Morishima on Marx"

n.d.

1

42

Article: "Multicollinearity" (draft)

n.d.

1

43

Article: "Multivariate Lognormal Diffusion Process of Economic Development"

n.d.

1

11

Article: "A New Concept of Economic Equilibrium, Deterministic and Stochastic, Illustrated by a Short Term Model of the Austrian Economy" (draft)

n.d.

2

1

Article: "A Note on Rank, Multicollinearity and Multiple Regression"

1945

2

2

Article: "A Note on Stochastic Linear Programming"

1960

2

3

Article: "A Note on the Generalisation of Diffusion Processes"

n.d.

2

4

Article: "A Note on the Use of Nonparametric Statistics in Stochastic Linear Programming"

1972

2

6

Article: "A Production Function for Austria Emphasizing Energy" in On the Measurement of Factor Productivities

1974
2 42 Article: "Production Functions Derived from Farm Records – A Correction" 1953

2

7

Article: "Probabilistic Economics"

n.d.

2

8

Article: "The Demand for Energy in Private Households in Austria"

1975

2

9

Article: "Produktion Funktionen für Österreich unter Berücksichtigung der Energie"

n.d.

2

10

Article: "Produktionsfunktionen Für die Österreichische Landwirtschaft"

1958

2

11

Article: "Programmazione Lineare Stocastica Con Applicazioni a Problemi di Economia Agraria"

1955

2

12

Article: "Konsumfunktionen für Österreich" in Quantitive Wirtschaftsforschung

n.d.

2

13

Article: "A Simple Aggregate Model for Austria"

1962

2

35

Article: "The 'Simple' Theory of Business Fluctuations: A Tentative Verification"

1944

2

14

Article: "Sobre una Aplicación de la Econometriá a la Política Económica de Colombia"

1977

2

15

Article: "Some Applications of Multivariate Analysis to Economic Data"

1946

2

16

Article: "Some Aspects of Stochastic Economics"

n.d.

2

17

Article: "Some Formal Relations in Multivariate Analysis"

1950

2

18

Article: "Stabilitatätskonzepte am Beispiel Österreichs"

n.d.

2

19

Article: "Static Econometric Models and Their Empirical Verification, Illustrated by a Study of the American Meat Market"

1944

2

20

Article: "Static Macro-Economic Models and Their Econometric Verifications"

1949

2

21

Article: "Scope and Method of Econometrics: Illustrated by Applications to American Agriculture"

1949

2

22

Article: "Statistical Aspects of Economic Aggregation"

n.d.

2

23

Article: "Stochastic Linear Programming with Applications to Agricultural Economics"

n.d.

2

24

Article: "Stochastic Programming and Stochastic Control"

1974

2

25

Article: "A Stochastic Theory of Economic Development and Fluctuations"

1960

2

26

Article: "Strategische Speiltheorie und Ihre Anwendung in den Sozialwissenschaften"

1957

2

27

Article: "The Teaching of Econometrics"

1954

2

36

Article: "A Test for Linear Relations between Weighted Regression Coefficients"

1950

2

28

Article: "Theories of Probability"

n.d.

2

29

Article: "Transformationen bei der Schätzung von Ökonometrischen Beziehungen"

1975

2

5

Article: "Über Eine Ökonometrische Anwendung in der Wirtschaftspolitik in Kolumbien"

n.d.

2

30

Article: "Un Modelo 'Input-Output' Simplificado Para a Economia Portuguesa"

1960

2

31

Article: "Une Théorie 'Simple' des Fluctuations Économiques"

1947

2

33

Article: "The Use of Mathematical Methods in Econometrics and Economic Statistics"

1954

2

34

Article: "A Weak Duality Theorem for Stochastic Linear Programming"

1963
2 43 Article: "Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft" 1955
2 44 Book review: Elementi di politica economica razionale by Eraldo Fossati 1955

2

37

Book review: Mathematical Analysis for Economists by R. G. D. Allen

1938

1

2

Travels to Moscow, Leningrad, and Warsaw

1976

2

32

Untitled manuscript

n.d.