High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (March 3, 1895 – January 31, 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.