These lectures are concerned with the origins of the distinctive policies of the Stockholm School of Economics, of which Lundberg was a leading member. He explores the historical development of the School and considers its place in the wider Keynesian tradition which dominated macroeconomic thinking in the West from the 1930s till the 1970s. The author examines the failure of Keynesian policies both in Sweden and internationally, and offers remedies for future policy-makers to ponder upon.
These lectures are concerned with the origins of the distinctive policies of the Stockholm School of Economics, of which Lundberg was a leading member...
The book s main purposes are to determine what statistical and other information is needed to formulate both the objects and the means of government economic policy and then to ask what theoretical tools should be used in order to clarify the issues of economic policy. Inflationary gap analysis, national budgeting techniques and the theory of economic fluctuations are examined against the experience of a country in which they have been intelligently applied. The book gives a lively account of Swedish economic thinking and of the economic policy debates in Sweden since 1920, discusses the...
The book s main purposes are to determine what statistical and other information is needed to formulate both the objects and the means of governmen...