{{Short description|Dutch economist (1930–2016)}} {{Infobox economist | school_tradition = | image = | caption = | name = Anton Barten | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|1|14|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|6|15|1930|1|14|df=y}} | death_place = | nationality = | field = Econometrics | alma_mater = Erasmus University Rotterdam | doctoral_advisor = Henri Theil | academic_advisors= | doctoral_students= | notable_students = | influences = | influenced = | contributions = }}
'''Anton Peter Barten''' (14 January 1930 – 15 June 2016)<ref name=leden>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gzNvCGJEGCYC&pg=PA251 Barten, A.P.] in ''De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008'', p. 251.</ref><ref name=pues>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.pues.be/sites/default/files/rouwbrieven/Barten%20Anton%20brief.pdf |title=De heer Anton Barten |language=Dutch |publisher=pues.be |date= |accessdate=17 June 2016}}</ref> was a Dutch economist.
Barten was born in Amsterdam.<ref name=leden/> He studied economics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.<ref>Harry van Dalen (1994) [https://pure.uvt.nl/portal/files/1012013/kwaliteit.pdf De kwaliteit van Nederlandse economische onderzoekers], Economisch Statistische Berichten: Algemeen Weekblad voor Handel, Nijverheid, Financiën en Verkeerr, 79(3990), 1168-1171.</ref> He worked at the Econometric Institute at the same university in the late 1950s. He there developed in interest in consumer demand.<ref name="Theil1996">{{cite book|author=H. Theil|title=Studies in Global Econometrics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWwkZHdmCoYC&pg=PA2|date=31 January 1996|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-7923-3660-0|page=2}}</ref> In 1966 Barten started working at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Leuven, Belgium, which had been set up by Jacques Drèze.<ref>{{cite web|author=Ivo Maes & Erik Buyst |url=http://people.stern.nyu.edu/svnieuwe/pdfs/MaesBuyst.pdf |title=Migration and Americanization: The special case of Belgian economics |language= |publisher=Euro J. History of Economic Thought |date=March 2005 |accessdate=21 February 2016}}</ref>
In the late 1980s Barten was involved in setting up the Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University (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.<ref>{{cite web|author=Frank van den Nieuwenhuijzen |url=https://universonline.nl/2015/01/08/center-zette-wetenschap-op-zijn-kop |title=CentER zette wetenschap op zijn kop |language=Dutch |publisher=Univers |date=8 January 2015 |accessdate=21 February 2016}}</ref> In 2008 Barten was awarded the Tjalling Koopmans medal by Tilburg University for his role in the foundation of centER.<ref>{{cite web |author= |url=http://uvtapp.uvt.nl/fsw/spits.nb_lib.frmToonNieuwsbrief?v_nieuwsbrief_id=16896&v_rubriek_id=0&v_taal= |title=Newsletter Tilburg School of Economics and Management |publisher=Tilburg University |date=18 June 2008 |accessdate=21 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303052645/http://uvtapp.uvt.nl/fsw/spits.nb_lib.frmToonNieuwsbrief?v_nieuwsbrief_id=16896&v_rubriek_id=0&v_taal= |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Barten became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/3836 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221104355/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/3836 |title=Anton Barten |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=21 February 2016 |accessdate=21 February 2016}}</ref> He became member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Barten_Anton |title=Anton Barten |publisher=Academia Europaea |date= |accessdate=21 February 2016}}</ref> He was a Fellow of the Econometric Society.<ref>{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.econometricsociety.org/users/prof-anton-p-barten/1067542 |title=Prof Anton P Barten |language= |publisher=The Econometric Society |date= |accessdate=21 February 2016 |archive-date=9 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209091335/https://www.econometricsociety.org/users/prof-anton-p-barten/1067542 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Barten died in Leuven.<ref name=pues/><ref>[https://feb.kuleuven.be/home/les/documenten/obituary-barten.pdf OBITUARY Anton Barten (1930-2016)]</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/nl/person/00005331 Profile at KU Leuven]
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