Pieter Hennipman
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Pieter Hennipman (1945)
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| Born | 12 September 1911 |
| Died | 4 July 1994 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Institution | University of Amsterdam |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Pieter Hennipman (12 September 1911 – 4 July 1994) was a Dutch economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, who is considered the "leading Dutch economist of the post-war period."
Born in Leiden, Hennipman received his MA in Economics at the University of Amsterdam in 1934 under Herman Frijda[] and Théodore Limperg, and in 1940 his PhD for the thesis "Economisch motief en economisch principe" (Economic motive and economic principle).
In 1938 he started his academic career as lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. After the war in 1945 he was appointed Professor of Economics as successor of Herman Frijda, who had died in Auschwitz. Among his doctoral students were Jan Pen (1950), Henri Theil (1951), Arnold Heertje (1960), and Joop van Santen[] (1968).
From 1946 to 1973 Hennipman was editor of the De Economist. In 1974 he married Elisabeth Eybers, with whom he stayed until his death.
In 1945 a significantly enlarged version of his thesis Economisch Motief en Economisch Principe (Economic Pattern and Economic Principle) was published. In this book he reckoned with the classic idea of the Homo economicus, which he called a "monstrous caricature," that should best not have been called into life. He argued that there is no economic purpose other than the pursuit of economic gratification using scarce alternative usable funds: "It follows that the economic objective in the sense of subjective theory that determined everyone, is missing specific content. It only covers those needs, that depend on the realization of scarce resources or of exchange operations."
Because needs differ per subject, prosperity in the broad sense is also a subjective concept and an empty (formal) concept in the sense that needs to be considered in the context of what the subject means by it. On this basis, the economy can not give prescriptions (or standards) for action.
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