1st Edition

A History of Economic Thought in Sweden

By Lars Magnusson Copyright 2026
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

Situating key texts and writers in their proper historical context, this book presents a history of Swedish economic thinking from early modern times to the present day. Highlighting key elements of Swedish political, economic and social history allows the book to shed new light on important parts of the story including the development of neo-classical economics from the late 19th century -... Read more

Acknowledgements  

1 Swedish Economic Thought – Ideas in Context

2 Polity and Economy in Early Modern Sweden

3 Natural Liberty in the Age of Freedom

4 National liberalism

5 Historical Economics and Marginalism

6 The Stockholm School

7  The Swedish Model

8 Epilogue

References

Index

Biography

Lars Magnusson is Emeritus Chair Professor of Economic History at the Uppsala University in Sweden and working member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science. He has been visiting fellow in a number of universities and scholarly institutes for example in Göttingen, Paris and Florence. He has written extensively on Swedish and European economic history as well as on general history of economic thought. Among the publications could be mentioned: Mercantilism: The Shaping of Politiical Economy (1994), An Economic History of Sweden (2000), The Tradition of Free Trade (2004); The Political Economy of Mercantilism (2015), and A Breif History of Political Economy: Tales of Marx, Keynes and Hayek (2016).