  ragnar anton kittil frisch (3 march 1895 â 31 january 1973) was a norwegian economist and the co-winner with jan tinbergen of the first nobel memorial prize in economic sciences in 1969. he is known for having founded the discipline of econometrics, and in 1933 to have created the widely used term pair macroeconomics/microeconomics. frisch was appointed by the king-in-council as professor of economics and statistics at the faculty of law, the royal frederick university in 1931. he served as the dean of the faculty of law 1942â1943. today, the frisch centre at the university of oslo is named in his honour.http://www.frisch.uio.no/ ==biography==  ragnar frischfrisch, ragnar, "autobiography", published in nobel lectures, economics 1969â1980, editor assar lindbeck, world scientific publishing co., singapore, 1992 was born on 3 march 1895 in christiania as the son of gold- and silversmith anton frisch and ragna fredrikke b. kittilsen. the frisch family had immigrated from germany to kongsberg in norway in the 17th century and his ancestors had worked for the kongsberg silver mines for generations;huhnhÃ¤user, alfred, die deutsche einwanderung in kongsberg, oslo, 1944 ragnar's grandfather antonius frisch had become a goldsmith in christiania in 1856. being expected to continue his family business, frisch became an apprentice in the david andersen workshop in oslo. however, at his mother's advice, while doing his apprenticeship frisch also started studying at the royal frederick university. his chosen topic was economics, as it seemed to be "the shortest and easiest study" available at the university, and passed his degree in 1919. in 1920 he also passed his handicraftsman tests and became a partner in his father's workshop. in 1921 frisch received a fellowship from the 
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