Anton Peter Barten (14 January 1930 – 15 June 2016)Barten, A.P.
in ''De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008'', p. 251. was a Dutch economist. Barten was born in

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. He studied economics at the

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and obtained his PhD at the

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. He worked at the Econometric Institute at the same university in the late 1950s. He there developed in interest in

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. In 1966 Barten started working at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in

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, which had been set up by

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. In the late 1980s Barten was involved in setting up the Center for Economic Research at

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(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 KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its main camp ...

. In 2008 Barten was awarded the

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medal by Tilburg University for his role in the foundation of centER. Barten became a corresponding member of the

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in 1984. He became member of the

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in 1990. He was a Fellow of the

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. Barten died in

.OBITUARY Anton Barten (1930-2016)
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External links

Profile at KU Leuven
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barten, Anton 1930 births 2016 deaths Dutch economists Dutch econometricians Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Fellows of the Econometric Society Academic staff of KU Leuven Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Scientists from Amsterdam Academic staff of Tilburg University University of Amsterdam alumni