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The Swedish Economists

In: Swedish Economists in the 1930s Debate on Economic Planning

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  • Benny Carlson

    (Lund University)

Abstract

Five Swedish economists were at the heart of the Swedish debate on economic planning: Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher and Gösta Bagge represented an older generation of classical/market liberals opposed to planning, Bertil Ohlin and Gunnar Myrdal a younger generation of social liberals or socialists advocating planning. These five fought over economic planning from the late 1920s to the late 1930s. Cassel, Heckscher and Ohlin wrote in daily newspaper on a regular basis, Bagge and Myrdal were more directly involved in policy-making. A few other economists occasionally intervened in the debate: David Davidson, Sven Brisman, Karin Kock, GustafÅkerman, Gustaf and Johan ÅkermanÅkerman, Johan. Ernst Wigforss, leading Social Democrat and the man who “divorced” planning from socialization, will also play a role in our story. He was not an economist by profession but anyway at the forefront of economic policy debates.

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  • Benny Carlson, 2018. "The Swedish Economists," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Swedish Economists in the 1930s Debate on Economic Planning, chapter 0, pages 33-46, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-03700-0_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03700-0_3
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