The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited

A readable collection for anyone interested in economic history, history of economic thought, or the ideas lying behind Swedish economic policy.

Lars Jonung (Edited by)

9780521391276, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 March 1991

496 pages
23.8 x 16.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.82 kg

In this volume leading scholars look at the heritage and impact of the important work done by the Stockholm School from the 1920s to the present. The first part of The Stockholm School of Economics Revisited covers the early years and is followed by an extensive review of the approaches to economics adopted by the school. A number of contributors investigate the Stockholm School's relation to and impact on their own work, the work of other economists, and the approaches pursued by other schools. A final round-table discussion delves into the question 'What remains of the Stockholm School?' A readable collection for anyone interested in economic history, history of economic thought, or the ideas lying behind Swedish economic policy.

Preface
Dramatis personae at the end of 1937 Klas Fregert
Introduction and summary Lars Jonung
Part I. The Roots: 1. The political economy club and the Stockholm school, 1917–1951 Rolf G. H. Henriksson
Comment Gustav Cederwall
2. Gösta Bagge, the Rockefeller Foundation, and empirical social science research in Sweden, 1924–1940 Earlene Craver
Comment Benny Carlson
Comment Bengt Metelius
3. The communities on unemployment and the Stockholm school Eskil Wadensjö
Comment Bo Gustafsson
Comment Otto Steiger
Part II. The Approach of the Stockholm School: 4. Expectation and plan: the microeconomics of the Stockholm school Claes-Henric Siven
Comment William J. Baumol
5. Sequence analysis and optimization Karl O. Faxén
6. There were two Stockholm schools Lars Werin
7. On formal dynamics: from Lundberg to chaos analysis William J. Baumol
Comment Björn Thalberg
Comment Kumaraswamy Velupillai
8. Lundberg, Keynes, and the riddles of a general theory Claes Berg
Comment Mats Persson
9. Macrodynamics and the Stockholm school Hans Brems
Comment Björn Hansson
10. Ohlin and the general theory Robert W. Clower
Comment Assar Lindbeck
Comment Don Patinkin
11. The monetary economics of the Stockholm school Johan Myrman
12. The Austrians and the Stockholm school: two failures in the development of modern macroeconomics? David Laidler
Comment Axel Leijonhufvud
13. The political arithmetrics of the Stockholm school Kumaraswamy Velupillai
Comment Jan Petersson
14. After the Stockholm school Björn Hansson
Comment David Laidler
Comment Lars E. O. Svensson
Part III. The Impact of the Stockholm School: 15. The Swedish influence on Value and Capital Sir John Hicks
16. The London school of economics and the Stockholm school in the 1930s Nadim Shehadi
Comment Brinley Thomas
17. Thoughts on the Stockholm school and on Scandinavian economics Paul A. Samuelson
Comment Don Patinkin
18. Ragnar Frisch and the Stockholm school Jens Christopher Andvig
Comment Björn Thalberg
19. The late development of the Stockholm school and the criticism from John Åkerman Jan Petersson
Comment Rolf G. H. Henriksson
Part IV. What Remains of the Stockholm School?: Roundtable discussion Assar Lindbeck, Don Patinkin, David Laidler, Kumaraswamy Velupillai, and Axel Leijonhufvud
The Stockholm school: a non-Swedish bibliography compiled by Klas Fregert.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA]