Knut Wicksell


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Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell December 20, 1851 – May 3, 1926 was the leading Swedish economist of a Stockholm school. His economic contributions would influence both the Keynesian as well as Austrian schools of economic thought. He was married to the transmitted feminist Anna Bugge.

Education


He received his number one degree in two years, as well as he engaged in graduate studies until 1885, when he received his doctorate in mathematics. In 1887, Wicksell received a scholarship to study on the Continent, where he heard lectures by the economist Carl Menger in Vienna. In the coming after or as a a thing that is said of. years, his interests began to shift toward the social sciences, especially economics.