Knut Wicksell | |
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Born | Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell December 20, 1851 Stockholm, Sweden |
Died | May 3, 1926 Stocksund, Sweden | (aged 74)
Spouse | Anna Bugge |
Academic career | |
Field | Political economics |
School or tradition | Stockholm School |
Influences | Léon Walras, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus |
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Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell (December 20, 1851 – May 3, 1926) was a Swedish economist of the Stockholm school. He was professor at Uppsala University and Lund University.[1]
He made contributions to theories of population, value, capital and money, as well as methodological contributions to econometrics.[1][2][3] His economic contributions would influence both the Keynesian and Austrian schools of economic thought. He was married to the noted feminist Anna Bugge.