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Lindahl, Erik Robert (1891–1960)

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Erik Lindahl’s writings between 1919 and 1959 covered four major areas. In public finance his pioneering contribution is today known as the ‘Wicksell–Lindahl paradigm of just taxation’. In dynamic analysis he was first to develop the methods of intertemporal equilibrium and temporary equilibrium. In macroeconomics Lindahl anticipated many of the insights of Keynes’s General Theory, and in his discussion of the concepts of income and capital he laid the foundations of the theory of national accounting. His contributions in the four fields have been acknowledged internationally step by step only since the 1950s – in the third area since the 1970s.

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Steiger, O. (2018). Lindahl, Erik Robert (1891–1960). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_828

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