Jacob van Gelderen
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Born10 March 1891
Died14 May 1940 (aged 49)
DisciplineMacroeconomics
School or traditionMarxian economics
Jacob van Gelderen | |
|---|---|
 J. van Gelderen | |
| Born | 10 March 1891 |
| Died | 14 May 1940 (aged 49) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | Marxian economics |
Jacob van Gelderen (10 March 1891, Amsterdam – 14 May 1940, The Hague) was a Dutch economist. Alongside Salomon de Wolff, he proposed the existence of 50- to 60-year long economic super cycles, now known as Kondratiev waves.
Van Gelderen became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927, he resigned in 1936.[1]
A Jew, Van Geldern died by suicide along with his family during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.[2]
