Ragnar Nurkse

Tags: Economist.

Ragnar Nurkse (5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1907 Käru Estonia – 6 May 1959 near Lake Geneva Switzerland) was an Estonian international economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development.

alma mater

Tallinn, University of Vienna, University of Tartu, University of Edinburgh

birth date

1907-01-01T00:00:00+02:00, 1907-10-05

birth place

Rapla County, Estonia, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, Käru

death date

1959-01-01T00:00:00+02:00, 1959-05-06

death place

Switzerland, Lake Geneva

depiction description (caption)

Ragnar Nurkse the father of Balanced Growth Theory

influenced

Paul Rosenstein-Rodan

institution

Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Oxford, University of Geneva

nationality

Estonians