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To Be an Independent Thinker: An Intellectual Portrait of Staffan Burenstam Linder

In: Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought

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  • Mats Lundahl

    (Stockholm School of Economics)

Abstract

When the ‘new’ doctoral degree in economics, with its systematic course requirements, was introduced in Sweden at the beginning of the 1970s,1 Professor Ingemar Ståhl, at the University of Lund, made the following comment: ‘Do you really have to put everybody in the same box? Wouldn’t it be better if they were allowed to think for themselves. Look at Burenstam Linder!’ Staffan Burenstam Linder (SBL) (1931–2000) was an ‘ideas man’. Most academics are satisfied if they have one good scientific idea in their lifetime. SBL had at least two, maybe more; it depends on how you count. Even fewer academics can count on being identified with their ideas by others, but all international economists know about the ‘Linder2 Thesis’, an early forerunner to the ‘new’ trade theory of the past two decades. The second idea closely associated with SBL is that of the scarcity of time. He was not the only person with this idea but his application was clearly original.

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  • Mats Lundahl, 2015. "To Be an Independent Thinker: An Intellectual Portrait of Staffan Burenstam Linder," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Seven Figures in the History of Swedish Economic Thought, chapter 14, pages 268-292, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29309-1_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137293091_14
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