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The Reaction to Knut Wicksell’s First Cause Célèbre: The Chief Cause of Social Misfortunes

In: Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought

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  • Mats Lundahl

    (Stockholm School of Economics)

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On 19 February 1880, the 28-year-old bachelor of arts Knut Wicksell made his first — but not by any means his last — cause célèbre — in front of the temperance lodge Hoppets Här (The Army of Hope) in a Lutheran mission hall in Uppsala.1 Wicksell, who six years before had emerged from a religious crisis, had acquired what was in fact to become a second religion for him — a religion which he stuck to for the rest of his life.2 Two years before, he had read the Swedish translation of the Scottish physician George Drysdale’s The Elements of Social Science (En medicine doktor, 1878), and after only a month and a half he had made the main ideas of the book his own (Gårdlund, 1996, p. 47). It was those ideas that he chose to propagate in front of the temperance lodge.

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  • Mats Lundahl, 2015. "The Reaction to Knut Wicksell’s First Cause Célèbre: The Chief Cause of Social Misfortunes," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought, chapter 2, pages 20-54, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29309-1_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137293091_2
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