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Wagner's Swedish Students: Precursors of the Middle Way?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Benny Carlson
Benny Carlson
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Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden.
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During the period 1871–1918, Sweden was under the in.uence, in many respects, of intellectual currents emanating from the German Empire. On the plane of economic policy many Swedish social scientists and public debaters were in.uenced by German Kathedersozialismus and state socialism. In Sweden, as in other countries, this heritage has long been tucked out of view in historical writings, perhaps because there was not much to boast about after the defeat of the “German model” in the First World War.1 Interest has begun to awaken in recent years, however. Leading economists such as Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner have attracted attention (see e.g., Backhaus 1997) and their in.uence in the United States has been examined (Carlson 1999, Rodgers 1998, and Senn 1997). In Sweden, too, interest in German Kathedersozialismus and state socialism is rising with respect to its in.uence on social scientists (Wisselgren 2000) and (social democratic) politicians (Karlsson 2001).

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 437 - 459
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2003

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