Assar Lindbeck

Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (born January 26, 1930 in Umeå , Sweden ; † on or before August 28, 2020) was a Swedish economist and professor of international economics at Stockholm University . His research areas are the welfare state and the insider-outsider theory .

Life

Lindbeck completed an academic education in Stockholm and Uppsala . From 1975 to 1995 he was a professor at Stockholm University .

Lindbeck played an essential role in establishing the Swedish Reichsbank's Prize for Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968, and was a member of the decision-making committee for the award of the prize from 1969 to 1994, and its chairman from 1980 to 1994.

Lindbeck was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1971), since 1972 external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences , since 1989 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1989 a full member of the Academia Europaea . The Norwegian Academy of Science , he belonged to also as a foreign member.

Honors

• 1996: Bernhard Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
• 2017: World Economic Prize

Works

• The housing shortage. A study of the price system in the housing market. Stockholm, 1963
• The Insider-Outsider Theory of Employment and Unemployment. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988
• The Swedish Experiment. SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 1997.
• A Study of Monetary Analysis.

literature

• Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 690-691

Web links

• Literature by and about Assar Lindbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Assar Lindbeck in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
• Internet presence
• university appearance

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National economist Assar Lindbeck död , svt.se, August 28, 2020
2. ^ Justin Fox: Where the Economics Nobel Came From. In: bloomberg.com. October 6, 2016, accessed October 7, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Thorvaldur Gylfason: Intervju med Assar Lindbeck . In: Nationalekonomiska Förenigen (Ed.): Ekonomiskdebat . tape 33 , no. 7 , 2005 (Swedish, nationalekonomi.se [PDF]).
4. ^ CV of Assar Lindbeck. In: nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010 ; Retrieved on October 7, 2016 (committee personal page). 
5. ^ Membership directory: Assar Lindbeck. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 16, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information). 
6. ↑ Bernhard Harms Prize. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de , archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; Retrieved June 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.