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Erik F. Lundberg, 1907-1987.

 

Stockholm economist.

Although Lundberg had been a student of Cassel's at Stockholm University, Erik Filip Lundberg nonetheless was more "Wicksellian" in spirit. Lundberg's formidable 1937 thesis was the most articulate and comprehensive statement of the Stockholm School's method of "sequence analysis".  His analysis of "gaps" in goods and labor markets predates the "disequilibrium" Walrasian-Keynesian approach of Don Patinkin and Bent Hansen.

Lundberg was director of the Swedish business cycle center (Konjukturinstitutet) from 1937.  In 1946, Lundberg was elevated to professor of economics at Stockholm University (a newly-created third chair, alongside Gunnar Myrdal and  Gösta Bagge).  He remainder there until 1965, when he moved to the Stockholm School of Economics.

 

  

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Major works of Erik Lundberg

  • Studies in the Theory of Economic Expansion, 1937.
  • Business Cycles and Economic Policy, 1957.
  • "The Profitability of Investment", 1959, EJ
  • Produktivitet och Rantabilitet, 1961.
  • "Studier i monetar analys", 1963, Ekon Tidskrift
  • Instability and Economic Growth, 1968.
  • "Productivity and Structural Change", 1972, EJ
  • Inflation och Arbetsloshet, with L. Calmfors, 1974.
  • Studies in Economic Instability and Change, 1995.
  •  The Development of Swedish and Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory and its Impact on Economic Policy, 1996.

 
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Resources on Erik Lundberg

  • "Review of Lundberg (1995, 1996)" by Villy Bergström, 1997, Ekonomisk Debatt (pdf)
  • Wikipedia
 
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