Lars Gösta Rehn (1913 – 1 December 1996) was a Swedish

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Life

Rehn studied at the

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and its Social Research Institute (''Socialinstitutet''). He started to work as an economist for the

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in 1930, being this his full-time employment since 1943. In 1952-58 he worked with

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policy questions for two committees at government level. In 1959-62, Rehn was employed by the

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as responsible for the Government's economic forecasts and analyzes of the effects of fiscal policy. In 1962 he became head of the Department of Labour and Social Affairs at the

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. In 1973-79 he was director of the Institute for Social Research at

, where he lectured and also researched after his retirement. He was also a guest researcher at the

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in 1979-80. Together with Rudolf Meidner, he developed the Rehn–Meidner model, a staple of the economic and social Swedish model.

Bibliography

* Los Sindicatos y la Crisis Económica - G. Bretaña, Alemana Y Suecia - P. Gourevitch, A. Martin, S. Bornstein e A. Markovits 1991 Ministerio de Trabajo y seguridad social. * Full sysselsättning utan inflation. Skrifter i urval. - Gösta Rehn, Eskil Wadensjö, Åke Dahlberg, Bertil Holmlund Tidens Förlag, 1988 (Full employment without inflation)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rehn, Gosta 1996 deaths 20th-century Swedish economists 1913 births