The Swedish Model - Problems and Prospect of "the Third Way" in the 21st Century (undergraduate level)
Macroeconomic Theory (undergraduate level)
Research Interest
Economic policy
Growth economics
Economic history
Economic psychology
Business cycle theory
Selected Publications (1997 - )
"Under the influence of traumatic events, new ideas, economic experts and the ICT revolution - the economic policy and macroeconomic performance of Sweden in the 1990s and 2000s",
Comparative Social Research, vol. 28, 2011.
"Ekonomisk tillväxt",
In Tillämpad makroekonomi, 4th edition (eds. M. Persson and E. Skult). Pocket universitetet, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, January 2011.
"A social innovation or a product of its time? The Rehn-Meidner model's relation to contemporary economics and the Stockholm school",
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 18, no. 1, 2011. Available on line from 23 October 2009.
"Development blocks, faulty investment and structural tensions - the Åkerman-Dahmén theory of the business cycle",
Journal of Institutional Economics, vol. 7, no. 2, 2011. Available on line from 7 June 2010.
"The Rehn-Meidner model in Sweden: its rise, challenges and survival",
Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 44, no. 3, 2010.
"Misstagens psykologi. Fyra strategiska felslut i svensk ekonomisk politik",
Häften för kritiska studier, no. 198-199, 2009.
"The Swedish third way - an assessment of the performance and validity of the Rehn-Meidner model",
Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 32, no 3, 2008.
"Ekonomisk tillväxt",
In Tillämpad makroekonomi, 3rd edition (eds. M. Persson and E. Skult). Pocket universitetet, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 2008.
"Even the bad times are good - a behavioural theory of transformation pressure",
Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.31, no. 3, 2007.
"En skördetid för Dahmén? Den svenska tillväxtskolan i dagens nationalekonomi",
In Erik Dahmén och det industriella företagandet (eds. N. Karlson, P. Storm, D. Johansson and B. Mölleryd). Ratio, Stockholm, 2007.
"Rehn-Meidnermodellen - en farbar tredje väg i den ekonomiska politiken?",
In Den tredje arbetslinjen - bortom den svenska modellen och marknadsliberalismen (ed. J. Olofsson). Agoras årsbok 2005.
"Ekonomisk tillväxt",
In Tillämpad Makroekonomi - 2:a upplagan (eds. M. Persson and E. Skult). Pocket Universitetet, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 2005.
"Combining Keynes and Schumpeter. Ingvar Svennilson's contribution to the Swedish growth school and modern economics",
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 15, no. 2, 2005.
"A 'third way' in economic policy - a reappraisal of the Rehn-Meidner model in the light of modern economics",
In Neo-Liberal Economic Policy (eds. P. Arestis and M. Sawyer), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, 2004. Revised version of a paper with the same title below.
"Den ohistoriska nationalekonomin. Myt eller verklighet?",
Häften för kritiska studier, no. 3-4 2003.
"Är nationalekonomin ohistorisk?",
In Att förstå och att förändra världen: en festskrift för Jan Otto Andersson (eds. R. Eriksson, M. Jäntti and J. Villner), Åbo Akademi Förlag, Åbo, 2003.
Rehn-Meidnermodellens tillämpning i Sverige under efterkrigstiden",
In Den svenska modellens ekonomiska politik (ed. L. Erixon), Atlas Akademi, Stockholm, 2003.
"Är höga vinster boven i inflationsdramat?",
In Den svenska modellens ekonomiska politik (ed. L. Erixon), Atlas Akademi, Stockholm, 2003.
"Ekonomisk tillväxt",
In Tillämpad Makroekonomi, 2nd edition (eds. M. Persson and E. Skult). Pocket Universitetet, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 2003.
"A 'third way' in economic policy - a reappraisal of the Rehn-Meidner model in the light of modern economics",
International Papers in Political Economy, vol. 9, no.2, 2002.
"A Swedish economic policy - the Rehn-Meidner model's theory, application and validity",
In Gösta Rehn, the Swedish Model and Labour Market Policies - International and National Perspectives (eds. E. Wadensjö and H. Milner). Ashgate Ltd, Aldershot, 2001.
"Das Rehn-Meidner-Modell: Ein dritter Weg zwischen Keynesianismus und Monetarismus," In Schweden im Wandel - Entwicklungen, Probleme, Perspektiven (Hrsg. C. Riegler/Olaf Schneider). Berlin Verlag 1999, 51-84.
"Bent Hansen and the economic theory of the Swedish model",
Paper presented at the 9th Nordic Conference on the History of Economic Thought, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-28 August 2010.
"Från periferi till centrum - psykologins ställning i nationalekonomin",
Department of Economics, Stockholm University, February 2009, mimeo.
Chapter 1 in a textbook in Economic Psychology together with Henry Montgomery, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
"The Swedish third way - an assessment of the performance and validity of the Rehn-Meidner model",
Department of Economics, Stockholm University, September 2007. A longer version of above, including an appendix on the wage and productivity functions of the Rehn-Meidner model.
"En skördetid för den svenska tillväxtskolan? Erik Dahméns metod och teorier i dagens nationalekonomi",
uppsats till det nionde nordiska doktrinhistoriska mötet i Stockholm 25-27 augusti 2006. A longer version of above, mimeo.
