Eli Heckscher and the Colleagues: The Role of Personality for Economic History

Mats Lundahl
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Chapter 8 in Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought, 2015, pp 152-182 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During his entire scientific life, Eli Heckscher professed a keen interest in the relation between economics and economic history. He wrote his first essay on methodological problems in 1904 (Heckscher, 1904) and his last work on the subject was published in 1951 (Heckscher, 1951). As Carl-Axel Olsson (1992, p. 33) has pointed out, his thoughts are ‘a battle which he fights out principally with himself’. Heckscher felt that he had to clarify to himself where one subject began and the other ended and to what extent they could be joined. The problem was not easy, for in the end it dealt with finding a modus vivendi between the historically unique and the theoretically general.

Keywords: Social Capital; Economic History; Social Democrat; Stockholm College; Cooperation Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137293091_8

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