Archive for Sven Rydenfelt
Do Unions Have a Death Wish?
Dr. Rydenfelt is a professor of economics at the University of Lund in Sweden. Hans Vaihinger, known for his “as-if” philosophy, stated that researchers and philosophers sometimes have to work with “crazy” assumptions. Thus, Copernicus assumed that the earth is a sphere, although almost everyone living at the time was convinced that the world is [...]
1Oct1987 | Sven Rydenfelt | 1 comment | ContinuedPower and Peasantry: A Report from the Soviet Union
Dr. Rydenfelt is a professor of economics at the University’ of Lund in Sweden. This article is adapted from a chapter in Dr. Rydenfelt’s book, A Pattern for Failure: Socialist Economies in Crisis (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1984). During the first few years after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Russian manufacturing production fell to [...]
1Apr1987 | Sven Rydenfelt | 0 comments | ContinuedLessons from Socialist Tanzania
Dr. Rydenfelt is a professor of economics at the University of Lurid in Sweden. This article is an updating of a chapter in Dr. Rydenfelt’s book, A Pattern for Failure: Socialist Economies in Crisis. Tanzania in eastern Africa became an independent nation in 1961, when it was known as Tanganyika. Its political [...]
1Sep1986 | Sven Rydenfelt | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Ecology of Entrepreneurship
Dr. Rydenfelt is professor of economics at the University of Lund in Sweden. J. M. Keynes’ theories with prescriptions promising to cure unemployment and depression were greeted as gospel by economists and politicians of the 1930s. Just as peace-lovers all over the world launched the slogan “no more war,” so the newly-fledged Keynesians felt strong [...]
1Jun1985 | Sven Rydenfelt | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Rise and Decline of a Welfare State
This report from Sweden explains that we are suffocating for lack of freedom.
1Nov1978 | Sven Rydenfelt | 0 comments | ContinuedComedy at the Bargaining Table
When the publishing firm of Natur och Kultur, in Stockholm, recently brought out a Swedish edition of F. A. Harper’s Why Wages Rise, they asked Dr. Rydenfelt, an economist at the University of Lund, to write a supplement for the book in which he would test its thesis against Swedish experience. This article is extracted [...]
1Feb1958 | Sven Rydenfelt | 0 comments | Continued-
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