Jacob van Gelderen

{{Short description|Dutch economist (1891–1940)}}

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| name = Jacob van Gelderen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|3|10|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|5|14|1891|3|10|df=y}}

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| nationality = Dutch

| field = Macroeconomics

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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.

Van Gelderen became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927, he resigned in 1936.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00000360 |title=J. van Gelderen (1891 - 1940)

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A Jew, Van Geldern died by suicide along with his family during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.{{cite web |title=Jacob van Gelderen |url=https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/227548/jacob-van-gelderen |website=Joods Monument |access-date=16 November 2023 |language=en |date=10 March 1891}}