Rudolf Meidner

Rudolf Alfred Meidner (born June 23, 1914 in Breslau ; died December 9, 2005 in Lidingö , Sweden ) was a Swedish economist .

Life

As a German Jew and socialist, he emigrated to Sweden after the fire in the Reichstag , where he became a citizen in 1943. He studied with the Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Myrdal .

As an exposed member of the Swedish social democracy and chief economist of the Swedish trade union federation LO (Lands Organizations i Sverige), he worked with the economist Gösta Rehn to develop a concept, the so-called Rehn-Meidner model , which for over two decades the active labor market policy of the social democratic government and the "solidary Wage policy ”of the Swedish trade unions. The concept of the inter-company “ employee fund ” that he had developed provided for a 20 percent skimming of the profits of the large companies that benefited from the egalitarian wage policy. Made a program by the Swedish trade unions in 1974, they were introduced by the Social Democratic government in 1983, but abolished again in 1990 by the Conservative government.

Meidner was for many years the editor of the journal Economic and Industrial Democracy published by the Arbetslivcentrum ("The Swedish Center for Working Life") in Stockholm .

See also

• Income policy
• Swedish model

literature

• Anna Hedborg / Rudolf Meidner: Model Sweden. Experiences of a welfare society . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• Günter Schmidt; Rudolf Meidner (1914-2005): visionary of economic democracy . In: WZB-Mitteilungen, Issue 111, March 2006, p. 49.
• Hans-Michael Trautwein : Meidner, Rudolf. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 436-439.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Meidner in the catalog of the German National Library