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- Carlson, Benny, et al.
(författare)
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Livet i Eastleigh : I väntan på DNA
- 2013
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Ingår i: Somalier i Sverige : Mellan hopp och förtvivlan - Mellan hopp och förtvivlan. - 9789187379048 ; , s. 21-49
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Carlson, Benny, et al.
(författare)
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Welfare Reform: Sweden
- 2002
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Ingår i: Europe's Welfare Burden.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Carlson, Benny, et al.
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Ingvar Svennilson on economic planning in war and peace
- 2017
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Ingår i: History of Economic Ideas. - : Fabrizio Serra editore. - 1122-8792 .- 1724-2169. ; 25:2, s. 115-138
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy in the mid-1940s, Sweden experienced a heated debate on economic planning in which a number of Sweden's leading economists were involved. In 1941, Ingvar Svennilson, a member of the so-called Stockholm school of economists, became the head of the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research, founded by Swedish industry. During the following years he wrote extensively on the issue of economic planning. Although this issue was ideologically explosive, he managed to strike a balance which earned him respect in most camps. His focus gradually shifted from central planning during the war, toward framework planning and indicative planning after the war, when he designed the first Swedish long-term survey.
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- Carlson, Benny, et al.
(författare)
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“Too Bad to Be True” : Swedish Economists on Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace and German Reparations, 1919–29
- 2024
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Ingår i: Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years : Polemics and Policy - Polemics and Policy. - 9781009407519 - 9781009407540 ; , s. 99-129
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter examines the response of five prominent Swedish economists, David Davidson, Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Knut Wicksell and Bertil Ohlin, to John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace and to the German reparations in the 1920s. When Keynes’s book appeared, Davidson and Cassel strongly endorsed it. Heckscher also agreed with Keynes in a long review entitled “Too Bad to Be True”. Inspired by his Malthusian view, Wicksell found the reparations feasible if only German population growth was arrested. The contacts between the Swedes and Keynes became close after Keynes’s book, in particular between Cassel and Keynes. The exchange of views took a new turn when Bertil Ohlin responded to an article by Keynes in The Economic Journal in 1929 on the transfer problem. The famous Keynes–Ohlin discussion laid the foundation for the analysis of the transfer problem, bringing Ohlin international recognition. We also trace how Davidson, Cassel and Heckscher changed their appreciation of Keynes in the 1930s with the publication of the General Theory while Ohlin viewed the message of Keynes in the 1930s as consistent with the policy views of the Stockholm school of economics.
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- Carlson, Benny, et al.
(författare)
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Competition or cooperation? “Somalinomics” in the UK
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this article is (a) to review scholarly literature on entrepreneurship among Somalis in the United Kingdom and (b) through a field survey among Somali entrepreneurs in the UK assess if the prevailing image – derived from (a) – is valid or if some additional observations may alter the picture. Step (b) is accomplished through interviews with 36 Somalia-born entrepreneurs, most of them secondary migrants from other European countries and currently living in Birmingham, Leicester and London, about their lives and businesses. The results indicate that the prevailing image holds true in most respects. However, the view of Somali entrepreneurs as victims of intense competition should be modified. Many shopkeepers selling similar goods cooperate and reap advantages from sharing information and costs. Also, Somali entrepreneurship should be judged not only by its economic but also by its social achievements.
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- Carlson, Benny
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Hesselgren, van Kleeck och IRI : Från industri till planekonomi
- 2006
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X. ; 126:2, s. 215-235
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The International Industrial Relations Institute (IRI) was established in 1925 at a congress of welfare and personnel workers in Holland. At first the organisation focused attention on scientific management and industrial relations but during the Great Depression its activities began to centre upon economic planning. The IRI was dominated by Mary van Kleeck from the United States and its radicalisation reflected her development into a dedicated advocate of Soviet style planning.One of the initiators of the IRI was a Swedish industrial welfare worker and its first president was Kerstin Hesselgren, Sweden’s first female factory inspector and member of parliament. The organisation had about 20 Swedish members around 1930 – mostly female personnel or welfare workers, factory inspectors, trade union activists and a few male managing directors – but over the next couple of years these fell away.The story of Hesselgren, van Kleeck and the IRI has at least two interesting aspects. Firstly, it reflects the transformation of social engineering from an issue of industrial relations to one of economic planning. Secondly, it tells us something about the American influence on Sweden in the area of industrial relations.The more precise question to be answered is why a number of Swedes first joined and then abandoned the IRI.The article argues that Hesselgren had most likely been impressed by van Kleeck before the forming of the IRI and that she brought her fellow Swedes with her into the organisation. However, the Swedes could not follow van Kleeck when she became an advocate for Soviet style planning.
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- Carlson, Benny
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På västfronten en del nytt
- 2002
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Ingår i: I & M. - 1404-6857. ; :1
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Carlson, Benny
(författare)
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The Institutional Ideas Virus : The Case of Johan Åkerman
- 1999
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Ingår i: European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0967-2567 .- 1469-5936. ; 6:1, s. 71-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish economists have received impulses from historical or institutuionalist sources on many occasions. A couple of these economists, Gunnar Myrdal and Johan Åkerman, received obvious impulses from American institutionalism. This article deals with the case of Åkerman. To attempt a wall-to-wall chart of institutional influences on an economist is hardly possible. But what is possible is to examine occasions when he was exposed to powerful ‘jolts’, viz in conjunction with studies at an American university. Johan åkerman studied at Harvard in Cambridge in 1919–20. he evetually became – alongside Myrdal – the leading institutional economist.
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- Carlson, Benny
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The IRI and its Swedish connection (International Industrial Relations Institute)
- 2007
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Ingår i: American Studies in Scandinavia. - 0044-8060. ; 39:1, s. 13-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The story of the International Industrial Relations Institute (IRI), its de facto leader Mary van Kleeck from the United States and its first chairman Kerstin Hesselgren from Sweden begins in 1925, when the IRI was established at a congress for welfare and personnel workers in Holland. At first the organization was focused on scientific management and industrial relations but during the Great Depression its activities began. revolving around economic planning. The story of the IRI thus reflects a shift in the approach to social engineering, from being a question of industrial relations to becoming a matter of economic planning. The present article also tries to answer the more precise question why some 20 Swedes first joined and then abandoned the organization.
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- Hellroth, Sven, 1956-
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Från arbetsstatistik till konjunkturöversikt : arbetarfrågan och etablerandet av en statlig konjunkturbevakning i Sverige 1893-1914
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis investigates the emergence and establishment of an early public monitoring system of the Swedish economy prior to the First World War. The study relies on a careful examination of the source materials with the view to map why and how the monitoring of the Swedish economy emerged, who demanded it, how the public supervision of the economy was organised and administrated and the results of the efforts. The common driving force was an increasing political interest in Sweden and elsewhere over the labour issue towards the end of the nineteenth century. In fact, the establishment of the monitoring system of the Swedish economy was largely the result of a broader international statistical respons to the labour question by the end of that century. The emergence of a public monitoring of the economy was driven by a general need for measuring the effect of industrialisation on the labour market, especially the growing problems with episodes of involuntary unemployment in the industrialised countries towards the end of the century.The thesis is divided in two parts with a total of ten chapters. It is written within a traditional narrative structure, that is, the beginning, the middle and the end. The first part examines the emergence of the surveillance of the labour market and consists of three chapters according to the narrative structure covering the period 1893-1913. The second part consists of three chapters that investigate the establishment of a monthly economic survey of the Swedish economy between 1910 and 1914, structured in the same way as the part one. The establishment of this early public monitoring of the Swedish economy should be regarded as a forerunner of the National Institute of Economic Research (Konjunkturinstitutet) 1937.
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