Assar Lindbeck – författare

Institutions and policies in the economic and social fields have been rather experimental in Sweden. The experiences of some of these experiments are also relevant, positively or negatively, for other developed countries. Sweden may therefore be regarded not only as a small country on the periphery of Europe, but also as a large economic and social laboratory. This book discusses the experience of economic and social policies in Sweden after World War II, emphasizing the period after about 1970.

Below is a list of the prizewinners during the period 1969 – 1980 with a description of the works which won them their prizes:(1969) R FRISCH & J TINBERGEN — for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes; (1970) P SAMUELSON — for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science; (1971) S KUZNETS — for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development; (1972) J R HICKS & K J ARROW — for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory; (1973) W LEONTIEF — for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems; (1974) G MYRDAL & F A VON HAYEK — for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena; (1975) L KANTOROVICH & T KOOPMANS — for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources; (1976) M FRIEDMAN — for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy; (1977) B OHLIN & J MEADE — for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements; (1978) H A SIMON — for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations; (1979) T W SCHULTZ & A LEWIS — for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries; (1980) L R KLEIN — for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies.