BIS Review 27/1997  -3-  But then he responded to the call of his homeland. There was nowhere he was not needed. Economic research needed him. He became a professor of macroeconomics in Amsterdam. The government needed him. He became the Minister of Finance at an early age. Actually, that’s a contradiction in terms.
1 Naina Kümmel (nainablabla), tweeted on 10 January 2015 at 3:49 a.m. 2 Report by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs dated 19 October 2001 in  the version dated 27 June 2008. 3 See ING-DiBa online opinion poll, run by Ipsos in August 2017, persons surveyed: financial decision makers  aged 18 and over.