Danish Economists
16 June 2006 at 1:01 am Peter G. Klein 7 comments
| Peter Klein |
This post definitely merits the ephemera tag, but here it is anyway, largely for the benefit of my Danish co-blogger.
Where are the important Danish economists? The Swedes have Wicksell, Myrdall, Hecksher, Ohlin, Lindbeck, and Holmström. Norway gave us Trygve Haavelmo and Finn Kydland. The president-elect of ISNIE is Icelander Thrainn Eggertsson. (Sorry, Finns!) So, what happened to the Danes? Did they exhaust all their collective intellectual capital on philosophy, physics, and literature?
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Nicolai Foss | 16 June 2006 at 8:15 am
Peter, Peter ….. tsk, tsk
1. Holmström is Finnish.
2. “Lindbeck” is “Lundbeck.”
3. “Myrdall” is “Myrdal.”
4. “Hecksher” is “Heckscher”
and the Danes had at least Frederik Zeuthen.
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Peter G. Klein | 16 June 2006 at 8:42 am
Sigh…. I thought _you_ were fact-checking this month.
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Teppo | 16 June 2006 at 10:07 am
Holmström is Finnish, exactly.
And, before (or rather, concurrent to) Adam Smith there was the Finn Anders Chydenius (1721-1803) – I will post about him sometime, fantastic social theorist/economist, though unfortunately he did not write too much.
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Peter Klein | 16 June 2006 at 3:24 pm
Hey, wait, I was right on Lindbeck. Nicolai is thinking of someone else….
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Nicolai Foss | 16 June 2006 at 3:51 pm
Right, I was thinking of Erik Lundberg.
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Bart Doorneweert | 17 June 2006 at 6:25 am
… and ofcourse the same question for football. How is it that Sweden is participating in the world cup and the Daring Danes are sitting on the couch watching it? Whatever happened to the Laudrup’s? Could there be a common demoninator we’re overlooking?
(if it’s ephemera you want it’s ephemera you get ;-) )
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Lasse | 22 June 2006 at 4:22 am
Peter, you forgot the greatest norwegian economist, Ragnar Frisch. Drop down and give me 20!