The Long Retreat : Gustav Cassel and Eli Heckscher on the ‘New Economics’ of the 1930s

The Institutional Ideas Virus : The Case of Johan Åkerman

Swedish economists have received impulses from historical or institutuionalist sources on many occasions. A couple of these economists, Gunnar Myrdal and Johan Åkerman, received obvious impulses from American institutionalism. This article deals with the case of Åkerman. To attempt a wall-to-wall chart of institutional influences on an economist is hardly possible. But what is possible is to exami

Wagner's Legacy in America : Re-opening Farnam's Inquiry

The continual interaction between economic change and economic policies designed to manage or guide this change seldom finds such dramatic expression as when one type of economy replaces another, e. g., when the industrial economy replaces the agrarian or is in turn supplanted by the “post-industrial” economy.Thus, when the American economy was in the thick of its industrial revolution during the

Gunnar Myrdal

Social Engineering, 1899-1999: : An Odyssey through the New York Times

Milton Friedmans svenska föregångare

Ekonomporträttet : Gustav Cassel

Gustav Cassel

Avreglering och privatisering i Västeuropa

Den rika staden : Malmö Strumpfabrik, Skånska Cementaktiebolaget, Kockums

Malmö - invandrarstad : Lägesrapport '94

Hur såg de stora nationalekonomerna på sin roll i samhällsdebatten?

Ung man blir konjunkturforskare

Förord

Ekonomporträttet : Hans W Singer (1910-)

Ohlins artiklar : Register över Bertil Ohlins artiklar i skandinaviska tidningar och tidskrifter 1919-1979

Kaliforniens elkris i pressen : Blir vi upplysta?

Gustav Cassel

Signe & Iris - svenska socialingenjörer

I början av 1900-talet kom socialingenjören/socialsekreteraren från Amerika och England till Sverige i skepnad av personalkonsulent, förmedlad av yrkesinspektrisen Kerstin Hesselgren. Flera kvinnliga personalkonsulenter tog steget över till yrkesinspektionen. Ett par av dem – Signe Holst och Iris Christiansson – reste till USA för att studera företagens personalarbete. Historien om »Signe & Ir

Hesselgren, van Kleeck och IRI : Från industri till planekonomi

The International Industrial Relations Institute (IRI) was established in 1925 at a congress of welfare and personnel workers in Holland. At first the organisation focused attention on scientific management and industrial relations but during the Great Depression its activities began to centre upon economic planning. The IRI was dominated by Mary van Kleeck from the United States and its radicalis