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Sven Rydenfelt: The Awkward Polemic

In: Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought

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  • Mats Lundahl

    (Stockholm School of Economics)

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Sven Rydenfelt was not a brilliant economic theorist and his purely academic output was small. His importance lay elsewhere. Rydenfelt was a formidable polemic with a pen dipped in venom. He continued and developed a tradition among economists that emanated from Knut Wicksell — that of never leaving wrongdoings in peace. Whenever he perceived a social evil he was ready to attack it. Rydenfelt wrote about everything from rent control and communism to the design of tombstones and the methods of the security police. He was a slugger who occasionally went off limits and who managed to attract a horde of enemies who thought that his views were ludicrous. Rydenfelt possessed an excess of civil courage which he frequently had to tap into when things got rough and nasty epithets were thrown at him from all quarters.

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  • Mats Lundahl, 2015. "Sven Rydenfelt: The Awkward Polemic," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought, chapter 13, pages 237-267, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29309-1_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137293091_13
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