Jacob van Gelderen (10 March 1891, Amsterdam – 14 May 1940, The Hague) was a Dutch economist. Alongside Salomon de Wolff, he proposed the existence of 50- to 60-year long economic super cycles, now known as Kondratiev waves.

Jacob van Gelderen
J. van Gelderen
Born(1891-03-10)10 March 1891
Died14 May 1940(1940-05-14) (aged 49)
NationalityDutch
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
School or
tradition
Marxian economics

Van Gelderen became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927, he resigned in 1936.[1]

A Jew, Van Geldern died by suicide along with his family during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.[2]

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  1. ^ "J. van Gelderen (1891 - 1940)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Jacob van Gelderen". Joods Monument. 10 March 1891. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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