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Ekonomisk politik. En vänbok till Assar Lindbeck
Get PDFEnligt svensk akademisk tradition uppvaktades Assar Lindbeck med en vänbok när han lämnade chefskapet för Institutet för internationell ekonomi. Lars Jonung anmäler här festskriften. Han belyser bl a Lindbecks roll som framgångsrik akademisk entreprenör och diskuterar institutets funktion som plantskola och förebild för en generation av svenska nationalekonomer
Interview with Assar Lindbeck
Get PDFMacroeconomic Dynamics commissioned this interview with Assar Lindbeck for a series of
such conversations with economists, starting with Duncan Foley's interview with Wassily
Leontief in 1998. Other interviews in the series include Ben McCallum's interview with
Robert Lucas (1999), Olivier Blanchard's interview with Janos Kornai (1999), Daniel
Trefler's interview with Elhanan Helpman (1999), William Barnett and Robert Solow's
interview with Franco Modigliani (2000), John Taylor's interview with Milton Friedman
(2001), James Poterba's interview with Martin Feldstein (2003), Brian Snowdon's interview
with Axel Leijonhufvud (2003), William Barnett's interview with Paul Samuelson (2003),
and John Campbell's interview with Robert Shiller (2004). Forthcoming interviews include
Olivier Blanchard's interview with Stanley Fischer (2005), Omar Licandro and Pierre
Dehez's interview with Jacques Dr?ze (2005), and George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja's
interview with Tom Sargent (2005)
Ekonomisk politik. En vänbok till Assar Lindbeck [Elektronisk resurs]
No full textEnligt svensk akademisk tradition uppvaktades Assar Lindbeck med en vänbok när han lämnade chefskapet för Institutet för internationell ekonomi. Lars Jonung anmäler här festskriften. Han belyser bl a Lindbecks roll som framgångsrik akademisk entreprenör och diskuterar institutets funktion som plantskola och förebild för en generation av svenska nationalekonomer
Interview with Assar Lindbeck
Get PDFMacroeconomic Dynamics commissioned this interview with Assar Lindbeck for a series of such conversations with economists, starting with Duncan Foley’s interview with Wassily Leontief in 1998. Other interviews in the series include Ben McCallum’s interview with Robert Lucas (1999), Olivier Blanchard’s interview with Janos Kornai (1999), Daniel Trefler’s interview with Elhanan Helpman (1999), William Barnett and Robert Solow’s interview with Franco Modigliani (2000), John Taylor’s interview with Milton Friedman (2001), James Poterba’s interview with Martin Feldstein (2003), Brian Snowdon’s interview with Axel Leijonhufvud (2003), William Barnett’s interview with Paul Samuelson (2003), and John Campbell’s interview with Robert Shiller (2004). Forthcoming interviews include Olivier Blanchard’s interview with Stanley Fischer (2005), Omar Licandro and Pierre Dehez’s interview with Jacques Drèze (2005), and George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja’s interview with Tom Sargent (2005).
AN INTERVIEW WITH ASSAR LINDBECK
No full textSweden has a long and distinguished tradition in economics, beginning with Knut Wicksell and continuing with Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Erik Lindahl, Gunnar Myrdal, Bertil Ohlin, and Erik Lundberg, all of whom are now gone. Yet, for several of these men, economics was not enough: Wicksell spoke out on moral issues and served time in jail, and Myrdal was for many years a high official at the United Nations and, briefly, a cabinet minister, as was Ohlin, who made his mark at home primarily as leader of the opposition in a country governed mostly by Social Democrats, serving in parliament for 32 years. For Assar Lindbeck, however, economics has been broad enough: he has devoted a long and distinguished career to economics, and to economics alone, with unfailing enthusiasm and energy over half a century. Not that he was not wanted elsewhere: over the years, he has declined challenging job offers from an international organization and a Swedish daily newspaper, to name but two examples, as well as from universities outside Sweden. Assar has managed to harness his varied and wide-ranging talents within the many mansions of economics. He is one of the most versatile economists of his generation. Indeed, he is one of the few who, for clarity, need to divide their bibliography into categories by subject: Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Public economics, Labor economics, International economics, Economic systems and economic structures, Methodology and history of economic thought, and Swedish economy. His work on these different subjects has ranged from pure theory to applied policy-oriented and empirical studies. In addition to the numerous scientific publications listed at the end of this interview, his bibliography includes nearly 200 articles for magazines and newspapers. His ivory tower has always been equipped with a high-speed elevator. But, as he points out in the conversation to follow, all his research work, as well as his journalism, is driven by an overarching interest in bettering economic policy and organization in other words, boosting economic and social efficiency for the purpose of lifting ordinary people s standard of life. This has been, and remains, a guiding principle a Leitmotiv, if you prefer from which he has never swerved. Assar Lindbeck is a towering figure in Swedish economics and in Swedish national life.
Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Welfare State.\u3c/em\u3e Assar Lindbeck. Reviewed by Henry J. D\u27Souza, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Get PDFAssar Lindbeck. The Welfare State. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar. 1993. $62.95 hardcover
Time Consistency of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A Solution
Get PDFThis paper demonstrates how time consistency of the Ramsey policy–the optimal fiscal and monetary policy under commitment–can be achieved. Each government should leave its successor with a unique maturity structure for the nominal and indexed debt, such that the marginal benefit of a surprise inflation exactly balances the marginal cost. Unlike in earlier papers on the topic, the result holds for quite a general Ramsey policy, including time varying polices with positive inflation and positive nominal interest rates. We compare our results with those in Persson, Persson, and Svensson (1987), Calvo and Obstfeld (1990), and Alvarez, Kehoe, and Neumeyer (2004).time consistency; Ramsey policy; surprise inflation
The European Social Model: Lessons for Developing Countries
Get PDFDeveloping countries, in particular the least developed ones, probably have more to learn from social policies in Europe during the early 20th century than from the elaborate welfare-state arrangements after World War II. In addition to macroeconomic growth and stability, the main ambitions must be to fight human deprivation, including illiteracy, malnutrition, poor access to water and sanitation – and, in some cases, also weak, incompetent and/or corrupt governments. It is also important that informal systems in the fields of transfers and social services are not destroyed when developing countries embark on more formal systems in these fields in the future. The European experience also warns against the creation of social systems that are so generous that disincentives, moral hazard and receding social norms seriously distort the national economy, including the labor market.Welfare state; social policy; developing economies
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