David Davidson (August 21, 1854 in Stockholm – 1942) was a noted Swedish economist. He was professor of

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

and

taxation law Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a ...

(then still under its former Swedish designation "finance law") at

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from 1890 to 1919. He founded and edited the journal ''Ekonomisk Tidskrift'' (known 1965-1975 as the ''Swedish Journal of Economics'', and since 1976 as the ''

Scandinavian Journal of Economics ''The Scandinavian Journal of Economics'' was established as the ''Ekonomisk Tidskrift'' (in Swedish) in 1899 by David Davidson. It became ''The Swedish Journal of Economics'' in 1965 (in English) and then ''The Scandinavian Journal of Economics'' ...

''). Via the journal, Davidson has been credited with switching Swedish economic analysis from one that followed the German Historicist approach to one in which Anglo-American style economic theory played a more dominant role. His work has been described as Neo-Ricardian. Davidson was a doctoral advisor to Eli Heckscher. Davidson was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1920.

Major works

* The Laws of Capital Formation, 1878. * Contribution to the History of the Theory of Rent, 1880.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Davidson, David Swedish economists Academic staff of Uppsala University Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1854 births 1942 deaths