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Karl-Göran Mäler (born March 3, 1939 in Sollefteå , † May 20, 2020 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a Swedish economist and one of the most important representatives of European environmental economics .

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Karl-Göran Mäler was born in Sollefteå in northern Sweden in 1939. He first studied mathematics , statistics and economics at Stockholm University (1960–1964), then economics from 1965–1970 with visits to MIT and Stanford University . In 1972 he completed his doctorate at Stockholm University. In 1975 he became a professor at the Stockholm School of Commerce , where he had been working since 1969. In 1981 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . 1981 to 1994 he was a member, 1986 and 1987 chairman of the committee of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics . From 1992 to 2006 he headed the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics , which he founded together with Partha Dasgupta . He was a founding member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists . His dissertation was published in 1974 as Environmental Economics: A Theoretical Inquiry and is one of the first influential contributions to environmental economics.

In his work, Mäler endeavored to combine economic theory with findings from environmental sciences , especially ecology . As director of the Beijer Institute, he brought together renowned scientists from both fields. a. Kenneth Arrow , Robert M. Solow , Paul R. Ehrlich , Simon Levin , Stephen Carpenter . He also researched the interactions between environmental (protection) and economic development. Together with Dasgupta, he initiated the Program of Teaching and Research in Developing Countries , within the framework of which scientists were trained in developing countries. He also founded the journal Environment and Development Economics with Dasgupta and Charles Perrings .

His main research areas included:

  • Environmental economic accounting , in particular the concept of inclusive wealth , which he proposed together with Dasgupta in the article Net national product, wealth, and social well-being (2000)
  • Application of game theory to the acid rain problem , starting with The acid rain game (1989)
  • Management of non-linearly behaving ecosystems ( The economics of shallow lakes , 2003)

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Karl-Göran Mäler: Environmental Economics: A Theoretical Inquiry . The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
  • Karl-Göran Mäler: The acid rain game . In: H. Folmer, E. van Ierland (Eds.): Valuation Methods and Policy Making in Environmental Economics . Elsevier, Amsterdam 1989, pp. 231-251 .
  • Karl-Göran Mäler: National accounts and environmental resources . In: Environmental and Resource Economics . tape 1 , no. 1 , 1991, p. 1-15 .
  • Karl-Göran Mäler, Aart de Zeeuw: The acid rain differential game . In: Environmental and Resource Economics . tape 12 , no. 3 , 1998, p. 1-15 .
  • Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Göran Mäler: Net national product, wealth, and social well-being . In: Environment and Development Economics . tape 5 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 69-93 .
  • Karl-Göran Mäler, Anastasios Xepapadeas, Aart de Zeeuw: The economics of shallow lakes . In: Environmental and Resource Economics . tape 26 , no. 4 , 2003, p. 603-624 .

Web links

literature

  • Bengt Kriström, Partha Dasgupta, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren (Eds.): Economic Theory for the Environment: Essays in Honor of Karl-Göran Mäler . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (et al.) 2002, ISBN 1-84064-887-2 , doi : 10.4337 / 9781843765424 .
  • Anastasios Xepapadeas, Aart de Zeeuw: Obituary: Karl-Göran Mäler . In: Environmental and Resource Economics . 2020, doi : 10.1007 / s10640-020-00435-y .
personal data
SURNAME Mäler, Karl-Göran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Sollefteå
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2020
Place of death Stockholm