Knut Wicksell on the Causes of Poverty and its Remedy

Download or read book Knut Wicksell on the Causes of Poverty and its Remedy written by Mats Lundahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater understanding of the social sciences as a whole. In this outstanding volume, Mats Lundahl, one of the world's leading development economists, examines Wicksell's thinking in the area of poverty, and shows the importance of his contributions to this field.