Letter to Ralph LeBlanc
- Title
- Letter to Ralph LeBlanc
- Recipient
- LeBlanc, Ralph
- Organisation
- World Federalist Movement
- Language
- English
- City
- Boston, MA
- Date
- 1975
- Date in document
- yes
- Formulas or calculations
- no
- Inventory number
- NL-RtEUR_TBCOR_A.2.2-13
- 81
- Storage location
- Specifiek Magazijn
- Filename
- CDM81_NL-RtEUR_TBCOR_A.2.2-13.pdf
- Provenance
- Jan Tinbergen
- Accrual Method
- donation
- Rights
-
- Revised transcript
-
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The Hague, 19 Jan. 1975
Dear Mr. Le Blanc,
I have given further consideration to your letter of January 6 about the new institute and also consulted some of my colleagues, taking into account also my initial doubts on whether the reasons for which I was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics would justify. (This was not for my work on international co-operation, but for my work on dynamic econometric models, as I explained to our friends Mr. Blanco, Miss Webster and [unclear]).
Let me at once summarize the conclusions to which I have come.
1. I don't think it is in the interest of WAWF to attach my name to the official name of the Institute for Global Economic Co-operation. My colleagues and I feel that using the name of a living person only makes a presumptuous impression. If at all, this is not done until after a person's passing away.
2. Hence I suggest that the name of the Institute indicates its field of activity; I think Institute for Global Integration may even be better.
3. I remain fully devoted to the ends of WAWF and am willing to serve as an honorary member of an Advisory Board on its scientific activities. I explained to our friends that for reasons of health and of heavy other obligations I have stopped travelling to the United States and other remote countries.
4. I cannot accept a trusteeship role.
5. Before you go ahead under the circumstances I don't think a further discussion with Messrs Zion and Bird in the Hague is necessary, it would seem wise to see to it that no overlapping with similar institutions takes place.
I apologize for the fact that, due to heavy work pressure — among other things, for the Club of Rome — I could not give careful thought to the matter earlier. Hoping that our co-operation will continue wherever possible, I remain
Yours sincerely,
(J. T.)
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