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Key facts
- Born
- Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell , ( 1851-12-20 ) December 20, 1851, Stockholm , Sweden
- Died
- May 3, 1926 (1926-05-03) (aged 74), Stocksund , Sweden
- Spouse
- Anna Bugge
- Influences
- Léon Walras , Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk , David Ricardo , Thomas Robert Malthus
- Discipline
- Political economics
- School or tradition
- Stockholm School
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Knut
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Uppsala University
- Employer
- Uppsala University
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Field of work
- economics
- Image
- Knut Wicksell av Albert Rahmn.tif
- Convicted of
- blasphemy
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- date of birth
- 1851-12-20
- date of death
- 1926-05-03
- place of burial
- Norra begravningsplatsen
- Commons category
- Knut Wicksell
- date of burial or cremation
- 1926-05-11
- unmarried partner
- Anna Bugge
- significant person
- Ann-Margret Holmgren
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Encyclopedic overview
Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell (December 20, 1851 – May 3, 1926) was a Swedish economist of the Stockholm school. He was professor at Uppsala University and Lund University.
He made contributions to theories of population, value, capital and money, as well as methodological contributions to econometrics. His economic contributions would influence both the Keynesian and Austrian schools of economic thought. He was married to the noted feminist Anna Bugge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Knut Wicksell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.