Mats Lundahl

This book explores the economic work and legacy of Bo Södersten. While best known internationally for his textbook International Economics, Södersten’s influence stretches well beyond this. Through his academic work and newspaper articles, he covered a wide spectrum of topics that often challenged conventional wisdom. By examining his work on housing, the labor-managed economy, development economics, nuclear power, childcare, and higher education, a full view of his diverse work is presented. This book aims to provide insight into the motivations and impact of Bo Södersten during each phase of his life: his academic career, his political life, and his time as a debater-provocateur. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in Swedish economics, the history of economic thought, and international economics.

Den orädde debattören är en vänbok till Bo Södersten på 80-årsdagen. Han är mest känd som nationalekonom, framför allt som författare till standardboken International Economics. Han var i tur och ordning professor i nationalekonomi i Göteborg, i internationell ekonomi i Lund och i nationalekonomi med särskild inriktning mot internationell ekonomi i Jönköping från början av 1970-talet till början av 2000-talet. Under skoltiden blev Bo Södersten politiskt intresserad. Han var riksdagsman för Socialdemokraterna 1979-1988 och satt bland annat i finansutskottet. När han kom tillbaka till universitetslivet kom han alltmer att engagera sig i fackliga akademiska frågor. Bo Södersten var under en period på 1990-talet ordförande i SULF (Sveriges universitetslärarförbund). Uppsatserna i Den orädde debattören spänner över de flesta av Bo Söderstens intresseområden. Den innehåller en handfull personliga porträtt av honom, speglar hans intresse för idéhistoria, svensk och internationell ekonomi, utvecklingsfrågor, rättighetsproblem och, sist men inte minst, hans debattvilja. Bo Södersten har aldrig varit riktigt politiskt opportun. Han kunde ta steget från Den hierarkiska välfärden till Kapitalismen byggde landet. Bo Södersten har drivit sina egna frågor, eldad av sin övertygelse, i bland annat Tiden, Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter och Sydsvenska Dagbladet. I boken medverkar Mats Bergstrand, Jagdish Bhagwati, Yves Bourdet, Fredrik Braconier, Henrik Braconier, Karolina Ekholm, Gunnar Eriksson, Ronald Findlay, Gunnar Fredriksson, Birgit Friggebo, Stig Gustafsson, Göte Hansson, Erik Jonasson, Ronald W Jones, Dale W Jorgenson, Peter Kindlund, Mats Lundahl, Nils Lundgren, Johan Lönnroth, Anders Milton, Svante Nycander, Inga Persson, Lennart Petersson, Gunnar Petri, Lars Pettersson, Nils-Eric Sandberg, Bo Sandelin, Fredrik Sjöholm, Birgitta Strömbom och Hans Tson Söderström. Den orädde debattören har redigerats av Mats Lundahl.

Eli Heckscher (1879 – 1952) är en av Sveriges internationellt mest uppmärksammade ekonomer - fortfarande livligt citerad och läst. Men i Sverige är kännedomen om hans centrala insatser fortfarande förvånansvärt begränsad. Heckscher är upphovsman till det moderna tänkandet om utrikeshandel – den s k Heckscher-Ohlin-modellen. Och om han hade levt 1977 när Bertil Ohlin och James Meade fick Nobelpriset i ekonomi för sina bidrag till bland annat utrikeshandelsteorin hade han utan tvivel delat det med dem. Heckscher är också Sveriges mest kände ekonomiske historiker. Hans böcker om kontinentalsystemet, merkantilismen och Sveriges ekonomiska historia är i dag klassiker. Med introduktioner och vägledningar av redaktörerna presenteras i antologin Heckschers syn på nationalekonomi och på ekonomisk historia. Här finns också många av de klassiska uppsatserna om bland annat utrikeshandel och räntepolitik. Tillsammans visar de på den bildning och idérikedom som kännetecknade Heckscher och som fick många att känna stor respekt för honom. Timbro publicerar nu Janusansiktet Eli Heckscher. Nationalekonom och ekonomisk historiker, en antologi med texter av och om Eli Heckscher i urval av Rolf G H Henriksson och Mats Lundahl. År 2000 publicerade Timbro en första antologi med texter av Eli Heckscher i urval av Kurt Wickman - ELI HECKSCHER - om staten, liberalismen och den ekonomiska politiken.

I två tidigare volymer har Industriens Utredningsinstituts (numera Institutet för Näringslivsforskning) historia under ett drygt kvartssekel sedan starten 1939 rullats upp: Ett forskningsinstitut växer fram IUI från grundandet till 1950 publicerades 2014 och Ett forskningsinstitut expanderar IUI från 1950 till 1966 kom av trycket 2019. Nu har turen kommit till en tredje volym som redogör för hur IUI konsoliderades åren 1967 72. Under denna period leddes institutet av Lars Nabseth som tog över stafettpinnen från Ragnar Bentzel och överlämnade den till Lars Wohlin. Perioden är kortare än i de båda föregående volymerna vilket förklaras av att institutets produktionstakt ständigt ökade. Strömmen av avhandlingar, böcker och artiklar blev allt stridare. Många av de ämnesområden som penetrerats under tidigare år blev föremål för fortsatta och fördjupade studier: arbets- och kapitalmarknaderna, skogsindustrin och jordbruket, olika industribranscher, reklam och konsumtion, skatter och bostadsmarknad. Långtidsutredningarna fortsatte men staten och institutet började gå skilda vägar. Studier av historisk ekonomisk tillväxt, utrikeshandel och fusioner tillkom. Många medarbetare kom och gick som sig bör i en organisation som fungerar som språngbräda till universitet, näringsliv och media. Några fanns kvar från Jan Wallanders chefsperiod: Lars Kritz, Leif Mutén och Lars Wohlin. Några hade börjat under Ragnar Bentzels tid: Villy Bergström, Gunnar Eliasson, Branko Salaj, Per Silenstam, John Skår och Yngve Åberg. Några tidigare medarbetare återkom: John Ekström, Odd Gulbrandsen och Assar Lindbeck. Många nya medarbetare anställdes under Nabseths tid, exempelvis Jan Bröms, Bo Carlsson, Gunnar Du Rietz, Ulf Jakobsson, Anders Klevmarken, Lennart Ohlsson, Olle Renck, Rolf Rundfelt och Bengt Rydén. Nabseth rekryterade också ett antal kvinnliga forskare, bland dem Siv Gustafsson och Birgitta Swedenborg.

This book explores the development of economic thought in Sweden through some of the people who shaped it. The book highlights both some of the well-known contributions and some overlooked areas of research. It begins with the origins of the pioneer neoclassical Heckscher-Ohlin theorem and Gunnar Myrdal ’s circular, cumulative approach to economic development. Secondly, it focuses on a number of economists related to the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research: Ingvar Svennilson, Axel Iveroth, Jan Wallander, Erik Höök, Villy Bergström and Rolf Henriksson. Finally, it offers portraits of three economists from Lund University: Bo Södersten, Ingemar Ståhl and Göte Hansson. The work of all of them is placed within the context of the contemporary academic and public economic debate. This book aims at providing a perspective on the legacy of the Swedish tradition in economics and will be relevant to students and academics interested in the history of economic thought.

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 analysis, institutional frameworks, value premises, and social engineering. The challenge of world poverty, the international dimension of poverty, and the legacy of The American Dilemma and Asian Drama are also discussed. This book aims to explore the development of Myrdal’s analysis of poverty during his life. It will be relevant to students and academics interested in the history of economic thought, development economics, the political economy, and labor economics.

This book explores the development of economic thought in Sweden through some of the people who shaped it. The book highlights both some of the well-known contributions and some overlooked areas of research. It begins with the origins of the pioneer neoclassical Heckscher-Ohlin theorem and Gunnar Myrdal ’s circular, cumulative approach to economic development. Secondly, it focuses on a number of economists related to the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research: Ingvar Svennilson, Axel Iveroth, Jan Wallander, Erik Höök, Villy Bergström and Rolf Henriksson. Finally, it offers portraits of three economists from Lund University: Bo Södersten, Ingemar Ståhl and Göte Hansson. The work of all of them is placed within the context of the contemporary academic and public economic debate. This book aims at providing a perspective on the legacy of the Swedish tradition in economics and will be relevant to students and academics interested in the history of economic thought.

Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country’s independence in 2002, and no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country. The former cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the historical process that created the present-day situation. This research monograph is the first book to combine a historical analysis of the creation and development of the economy of East Timor from the earliest times to the present, and an analysis of the main contemporary problems facing the East Timorese economy. Volume II offers a detailed analysis of the economy of East Timor, of politics, fiscal policy and social progress. It pays particular attention to structural problems: employment generation and the lack of a modern sector, the modernization of agriculture and the management of the oil deposits in the Timor Sea. The first volume, available separately, considers East Timor from a chronological perspective, as a Portuguese colony, and a country occupied by Indonesia up to national independence in 2002. This book will appeal to economists, political scientists and social scientists in general as well as practitioners, since it focuses on down-to-earth problems that need to be solved for the economy to develop. The book can also be read by students both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and could be used for case studies in development.

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 analysis, institutional frameworks, value premises, and social engineering. The challenge of world poverty, the international dimension of poverty, and the legacy of The American Dilemma and Asian Drama are also discussed. This book aims to explore the development of Myrdal’s analysis of poverty during his life. It will be relevant to students and academics interested in the history of economic thought, development economics, the political economy, and labor economics.

I två volymer – Ett forskningsinstitut växer fram (2014) och Ett forskningsinstitut expanderar (2019) – har historien om IUI tidigare skildrats från starten 1939 och fram till ett chefsbyte 1966. Man kan tycka att en organisationshistorik som på mer än 1 300 sidor spänner över 27 av 81 års verksamhet borde ha varit uttömmande. Men icke. Det fanns mer att berätta. Tre kapitel bygger på tidigare outnyttjat arkivmaterial om några nyckelpersoners resor i västerled. Axel Iveroth var 1945–46 verksam som industriattaché vid svenska beskickningen i Washington och rapporterade hem i brev till IUI-chefen Ingvar Svennilson. Svennilson gav sig 1947 ut på en tre månaders rundresa i USA och summerade sina intryck i tidningsartiklar. När han 1960 åter vistades i USA gjorde han en avstickare till Cuba och rapporterade om den färska Castroregimen i brev till dåvarande IUI-chefen Jan Wallander. Wallander hade för sin del också gjort en resa västerut, dock inte så lång, till Värmland, där han 1945–46 samlade material till sin doktorsavhandling Flykten från skogsbygden. Två kapitel består av omarbetningar av material från de tidigare IUI-volymerna. De behandlar Svennilsons många inlägg i planhushållningsfrågan under och efter andra världskriget och Erik Hööks pionjärarbete från 1960 om Den offentliga sektorns expansion. I ytterligare två kapitel porträtteras ekonomer som spelat en viktig roll för IUI under senare perioder, Villy Bergström och Rolf G. H. Henriksson. Den här boken rekommenderas varmt till alla som har eller haft anknytning till IUI/IFN eller som vill ha ytterligare kunskap om näringslivsforskningens utveckling.

First published in 1999, the essays collected in the present volume derive from an interest in South Africa and its economy which goes back to the early 1970s and were written between 1994 and 1999. The intention is to follow how the debate on the South African economy has evolved since the fall of the apartheid regime. Issues discussed include the South African economy after apartheid and whether the new South African economy is ultimately experienced growth or stagnation.

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002. Currently, no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country. The former cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the historical process that created the present-day situation. This research monograph is the first book to combine a historical analysis of the creation and development of the economy of East Timor from the earliest times to the present, and an analysis of the main contemporary problems facing the East Timorese economy. Volume I considers East Timor from a chronological perspective, as an occupied country up to the point at which Indonesia leave.This book will appeal to scholars and students of economics, political and social science. It will also be of interest to practitioners in these fields as it focuses on down-to-earth problems that need to be solved for the economy todevelop.

First published in 1998, this collection of essays deals with four different areas of international economics: the theory of international trade, trade and development, protectionism and factor movements (notably migration and foreign aid). These themes explore the determinants of trade patterns, the relation between these patterns and those of underdevelopment and development, the failure of protectionism to increase welfare and, finally, the impact of emigration on the source country and that of foreign aid on the recipient country.

Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country’s independence in 2002, and no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country. The former cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the historical process that created the present-day situation. This research monograph is the first book to combine a historical analysis of the creation and development of the economy of East Timor from the earliest times to the present, and an analysis of the main contemporary problems facing the East Timorese economy. Volume II offers a detailed analysis of the economy of East Timor, of politics, fiscal policy and social progress. It pays particular attention to structural problems: employment generation and the lack of a modern sector, the modernization of agriculture and the management of the oil deposits in the Timor Sea. The first volume, available separately, considers East Timor from a chronological perspective, as a Portuguese colony, and a country occupied by Indonesia up to national independence in 2002. This book will appeal to economists, political scientists and social scientists in general as well as practitioners, since it focuses on down-to-earth problems that need to be solved for the economy to develop. The book can also be read by students both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and could be used for case studies in development.

2014 publicerades Ett forskningsinstitut växer fram IUI från grundandet till 1950. I den här boken fortsätter historien om Industriens Utredningsinstitut (numera Institutet för Näringslivsforskning). Den period som behandlas är 1950 66, en period då institutet leddes av dynamiska chefer, Jan Wallander (1953 61) och Ragnar Bentzel (1961 66), och dess ställning som Sveriges ledande fristående forskningsinstitut befästes. Det som främst karakteriserade IUI:s verksamhet under dessa år var förmågan att hitta relevanta forskningsämnen, ämnen som berörde en bred allmänhet, och behandla dem på ett vetenskapligt högkvalitativt sätt. Inte sällan ställdes etablerade sanningar på huvudet. På IUI gjordes de första studierna av svensk inkomstfördelning och av det svenska konsumtionsmönstret, den första input-outputanalysen för Sverige, de första ekonomiska undersökningarna av svensk populärpress och reklam samt kontroversiella studier av två sönderreglerade sektorer: bostads- och jordbruksmarknaderna. Precis som under institutets första period rekryterades medarbetare som med tiden fick framträdande positioner i universitetsvärlden, näringslivet och media. Bengt Höglund, Odd Gulbrandsen, Assar Lindbeck, Karl Jungenfelt, Gunnar Törnqvist, Bengt Rundblad, Leif Mutén, Lars Nabseth, Göran Albinsson och Åke Ortmark kom alla till IUI mellan 1950 och 1966.

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002. Currently, no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country. The former cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the historical process that created the present-day situation. This research monograph is the first book to combine a historical analysis of the creation and development of the economy of East Timor from the earliest times to the present, and an analysis of the main contemporary problems facing the East Timorese economy. Volume I considers East Timor from a chronological perspective, as an occupied country up to the point at which Indonesia leave.This book will appeal to scholars and students of economics, political and social science. It will also be of interest to practitioners in these fields as it focuses on down-to-earth problems that need to be solved for the economy todevelop.

First published in 1998, this collection of essays deals with four different areas of international economics: the theory of international trade, trade and development, protectionism and factor movements (notably migration and foreign aid). These themes explore the determinants of trade patterns, the relation between these patterns and those of underdevelopment and development, the failure of protectionism to increase welfare and, finally, the impact of emigration on the source country and that of foreign aid on the recipient country.

First published in 1999, the essays collected in the present volume derive from an interest in South Africa and its economy which goes back to the early 1970s and were written between 1994 and 1999. The intention is to follow how the debate on the South African economy has evolved since the fall of the apartheid regime. Issues discussed include the South African economy after apartheid and whether the new South African economy is ultimately experienced growth or stagnation.

This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers – conceptual, theoretical and empirical – and introduce the fundamental theoretical model for extending frontiers which is drawn on throughout the book. The authors use this theoretical apparatus by applying it to a number of historical cases. These include the division of the European territory between the Byzantine Empire, Islam and Western Europe, the creation and expansion of the Mongol Empire, the impact of the Black Death, the European discovery of the New World, the staples trade from 1870–1914, and the rise and fall of banditry in Brazil.The Economics of the Frontier brings together a collection of essays which explore how economically optimal frontiers were founded from sixth-century Europe through to twentieth-century Brazil.

This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers – conceptual, theoretical and empirical – and introduce the fundamental theoretical model for extending frontiers which is drawn on throughout the book. The authors use this theoretical apparatus by applying it to a number of historical cases. These include the division of the European territory between the Byzantine Empire, Islam and Western Europe, the creation and expansion of the Mongol Empire, the impact of the Black Death, the European discovery of the New World, the staples trade from 1870–1914, and the rise and fall of banditry in Brazil.The Economics of the Frontier brings together a collection of essays which explore how economically optimal frontiers were founded from sixth-century Europe through to twentieth-century Brazil.