M. Lundahl 
Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought 
Knut Wicksell, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, Torsten Gårdlund, Sven Rydenfelt, Staffan Burenstam Linder and Jaime Behar

Who are the greatest economic thinkers of Sweden? Seventeen essays on seven Swedish economists aim to answer this question, exploring the contributions of Knut Wicksell, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, Torsten Gårdlund, Sven Rydenfelt, Staffan Burenstam Linder and Jaime Behar. Swedish academic economists have by and large withdrawn from the public debate but this book celebrates Swedish Economic Thought from Knut Wicksell to the present.

Table of Content

Preface 1 Introduction: Unknown Writings 2 The Reaction to Knut Wicksell’s First Cause Célèbre: The Chief Cause of Social Misfortunes 3 Population Growth and Diminishing Returns: Knut Wicksell on the Causes of Poverty 4 Knut Wicksell on Population and Poverty: A General Equilibrium Approach 5 Foreign Trade and Exchange Rates: The Theoretical Contributions of Eli Heckscher to International Economics 6 The Janus Face of Eli Heckscher: Theory, History and Method 7 The Beginning of Economic History 8 Eli Heckscher and the Colleagues: The Role of Personality for Economic History 9 The Economist Bertil Ohlin: Do His Ideas Still Stand Up? 10 Torsten Gårdlund: Littérateur and Economist 11 Torsten Gårdlund: A Portrait 12 Against the Current: Sven Rydenfelt (1911-2005) 13 Sven Rydenfelt: The Awkward Polemic 14 To Be an Independent Thinker: An Intellectual Portrait of Staffan Burenstam Linder 15 Visions and Action 16 Jaime Behar (1938-2010) 17 A Tradition Lost? The Swedish Economists in the Public Debate

About the author

Mats Lundahl is Professor at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.