Mathijs Nicolaas Bouman (born 1 May 1966) is a Dutch economist and journalist. He is a regular contributor to the TV programs ''

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'' and ''

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'' and writes columns for ''

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'' and the business website Z24.nl. A critic of the Dutch Polder model, in which "bad luck is officially forbidden" and "accidents are banned", he is referred to as a market liberalist, and as a prominent opinion builder whose Twitter account is recommended for "peppered" opinions.

Biography

Bouman graduated from the

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in Zaandam (1986), and got his Ph.D. in economics from the

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(1998) under

Rick van der Ploeg Frederick "Rick" van der Ploeg (born 28 April 1956, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch economist and former politician. Career After having obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge, he held professorships in economics at the University of Amsterda ...

and , specializing in

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. He published on

material flow analysis Material flow analysis (MFA), also referred to as substance flow analysis (SFA), is an analytical method to quantify flows and stocks of materials or substances in a well-defined system. MFA is an important tool to study the bio-physical aspects o ...

and the intersections of economics and environment. After his promotion, he was a researcher at three Dutch universities, and worked for

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between 2003 and 2005. Bouman has become a notable TV personality. He is a frequent panelist on ''

'', a TV talk show focusing on current events; he is referred to as a "TV economist" and a "media economist". He comments (for

and other outlets) on economic topics including the stock exchange and the

Financial crisis of 2007–08 Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

. From 2007 to 2010 he wrote a column for ''

De Groene Amsterdammer ''De Groene Amsterdammer'' is an independent Dutch weekly news magazine published in Amsterdam and distributed throughout the Netherlands. It is conventionally considered to be one of the four major weeklies, alongside ''HP/De Tijd'', ''Vrij Neder ...

''. he is a regular columnist for ''

''. He is the author of two books on Dutch economics: ''Hollandse Overmoed'' ("Dutch Overconfidence", 2006) and ''De Elektrische Spijkerbroek en andere avonturen in de economie'' ("The electric jeans and other adventures in the economy", 2010), a collection of his columns with observations on and anecdotes from the Dutch economy. A review in the ''

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'' noted a number of worthwhile one-liners, including "If women pay fewer taxes, men will vacuum more often" and "the world's tallest buildings are usually an omen of disaster".

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