"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...

Tumultuous beginnings : the cause of poverty and its remedy -- The causes of population growth : the French prize essay -- The centerpiece of Wicksell's theory : diminishing returns -- Overpopulation, specialization and trade -- Emigration : a solution of the past -- The optimum population --...

This book examines Gunnar Myrdal’s analysis of poverty in relation to Sweden, the United States, South Asia, and the international economy. The chapters investigate Mrydal’s methodological development and his focus on the principle of circular and cummulative causation, dynamic economic...

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...