Knut Wicksell: Selected Essays Volumes 1 & 2

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Knut Wicksell: Selected Essays Volumes 1 & 2Author(s): Bo Sandelin\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415685573, 978-0415685573\nSynopsis\nKnut Wicksell was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, making major contributions to price theory, monetary theory and capital theory. A prolific and diverse thinker, his ideas were to inspire the Stockholm School, the Austrian School and mainstream neo-classical economics.\n\nAlthough most of his major books have now been translated into English, relatively few of his essays have. These two volumes, first published in 1997 and 1999, made many of Wicksell's most important contributions accessible to the English speaking reader for the first time and this reissue will be welcomed by economists at all levels.\n\nThese volumes contain translations of articles originally written in Swedish and German which focus on:\n\n*marginalism and capital theory\n\n*public economi.