Bengt Daniel Ankarloo, formerly ''Norrman'', 19 mars 1970 born in
Backa,
Gothenburg
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, is a Swedish Ph.D. in
economic history
Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and ins ...
, author and senior lecturer at
Malmö University.
Research
Ankarloo has among other endeavors critiqued the claimed scientific status of discipline of economics.
And dealt with Marxist
critique of political economy.
He has also written works regarding the introduction of
New public management to education.
Public figure
Ankarloo has been a reoccurring figure involved in the debate regarding the public debate regarding the welfare state in Sweden, something he has also lectured about at Malmö University. He has shown that 75 percent of the swedes support at publicly funded welfare state. And has argued that the claimed problems regarding supporting the welfare state are simply false.
Bibliography
Books and dissertations
* ''Institutions", what is in a word? : a critique of the new institutional economics, 2000.''
* Kris i välfärdsfrågan : vänstern, välfärden och socialismen,2005
* Marknadsmyter : en kritisk betraktelse av nyliberala påståenden, 2008
* Den högre utbildningen: ett fält av marknad och politik,2012
Articles
New Institutional Economics and economic historyAfter golden age: The Labor movement and end of Fordism*
References
External links
Dokument inifrån - Politiker utan mål - Documentary regarding politicians without goals, featuring Ankarloo
Academic staff of Malmö University
21st-century Swedish historians
Critics of political economy
1970 births
Living people
People from Gothenburg Municipality
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