Twelve Figures in Swedish Economics Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, Gunnar Myrdal, Ingvar Svennilson, Axel Iveroth, Jan Wallander, Erik Höök, Bo Södersten, Rolf Henriksson, Ingemar Ståhl, Villy Bergström and Göte Hansson
Finally, it offers portraits of three economists from Lund University: Bo Södersten, Ingemar Ståhl and Göte Hansson. The work of all of them is placed within the context of the contemporary academic and public economic debate. This book aims at providing a perspective on the legacy of the Swedish tr...
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Twelve Figures in Swedish Economics
- Chapter 2: The Inspiration for the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem
- Chapter 3: Gunnar Myrdal on Poverty and Circular, Cumulative Causation
- Chapter 4: Ingvar Svennilson on Economic Planning in War and Peace
- Chapter 5: From the Western Front: Axel Iveroth in Washington
- Chapter 6: From the New World: Ingvar Svennilson in the United States and Cuba
- Chapter 7: ‘Well, But in Those Days, Booze Was Cheap’: Jan Wallander in the Värmland Forests
- Chapter 8: ‘Like Locusts on the Mississippi’: A Pioneer Study of the Expansion of the Swedish Public Sector
- Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Bo Södersten
- Chapter 10: Rolf G.H. Henriksson: Portrait of an Economist
- Chapter 11: The Peasant Oppressor from Norra Fäladen: Ingemar Ståhl and the Regulation of Swedish Agriculture
- Chapter 12: My Friend Villy
- Chapter 13: Social Clauses, Harmonization and Transition Economies: The World of Göte Hansson.