Eli Heckscher’s Ideological Migration Toward Market Liberalism
(2016) In Econ Journal Watch 13(1). p.75-99- Abstract
- For most of his life economist and economic historian Eli Heckscher was the most firmly principled economic liberal Sweden had. He fought against state-socialist tendencies, Keynesian crisis policy, and economic planning. In his younger days, however, he was a social conservative who adopted an almost state-socialist stance. This article provides an account of Heckscher’s ideology and its development, drawing on previously untranslated policy-oriented discourse and focusing on Heckscher’s movement toward market liberalism. It details Heckscher’s liberal insights in political economy and his fears of a government with unprecedented resources, the creation of a “Frankenstein’s monster.”
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- Carlson, Benny LU
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- publishing date
- 2016
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- liberalism, Sweden, Eli Heckscher
- in
- Econ Journal Watch
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 75 - 99
- publisher
- Institute of Spontaneous Order Economics
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- scopus:84956694338
- ISSN
- 1933-527X
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 8462d352-aada-495e-b471-6fd62ad8268d (old id 8572551)
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title = {{Eli Heckscher’s Ideological Migration Toward Market Liberalism}},
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