Assar Lindbeck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Assar Lindbeck

Swedish economist

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden

Profession: economist, artist, painter, university teacher

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Assar Lindbeck

  • Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (born 26 January 1930) is a Swedish professor of economics at Stockholm University and at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).Lindbeck is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and previously chaired the Academy's prize committee for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
  • He was the first Swede to be appointed a foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, and one of only three Swedes ever.Lindbeck has done research on unemployment (e.g.
  • the insider-outsider theory of employment), the welfare state (including the effect of changing social norms), and China's reformed economy.
  • Lindbeck received a Ph.D.
  • from Stockholm University in 1963 with the doctoral thesis A study in monetary analysis.Assar Lindbeck also has a theory on self-destructive welfare state dynamics, in which the welfare system erodes norms relating to work and responsibility: change in the work ethic is related to a rising dependence on welfare state institutions.
  • It was on the basis of this viewpoint that he promoted the economic theories of conservative American theorist James McGill Buchanan.
  • Indeed, it is said that it was through Lindbeck's influence at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that Buchanan was awarded the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a decision which was criticized by a British columnist in 2017.Lindbeck previously headed the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.
  • In 1992–1993 he headed the so-called "Lindbeck Commission", which was appointed by the Government of Sweden to propose reforms in light of the then-ongoing economic crisis.

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