Folkert de Roos

Folkert de Roos (3 September 1920 – 12 July 2000) was a Dutch economist and Professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Biography Born on 3 September 1920, in a Reformed family in Leeuwarden where his father was working as baker, De Roos started to study Economics at the Netherlands School of Economics in Rotterdam late-1930s. There he received his MA in 1942, and later in 1949 his PhD cum laude with a thesis entitled "De algemene banken in Nederland" (The general banks of the Netherlands). This work would become a seminal work for generations of Dutch students. Wouter Roes (1973), Gerrit Faber (1981), Paul Hilbers (1986) et al.

He became more generally known as member Social-Economic Council since early 1950s, and as author of articles in the Economisch-Statistische Berichten and board member at the De Nederlandsche Bank. Books, a selection: 1949. De algemene banken in Nederland. Doctoral thesis Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam 1953. Een halve eeuw rente in Nederland. With Wiert Jan Wieringa. Levensverzekering-maatschappij HAV Bank, 1953. 1957. Inleiding tot de theorie der internationale economische betrekkingen. Haarlem : De Erven F. Bohn 1960. Groeitheorie. With D.B.J. Schouten. Haarlem : Bohn 1991. Over geld, rente en wisselkoersen : een selectie uit de verspreide publikaties van prof. dr. F. de Roos P.A. Geljon et al. eds. Leiden : Stenfert Kroese