Johan Magnus Lönnroth (born 25 December 1937,

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), is a Swedish left-wing

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and an

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. He has also been a

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for

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(the Swedish Left Party) from 1991 to 2003. He is currently working part-time at the

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Bibliography

Swedish

*''Marxism som matematisk ekonomi: en kritik av några moderna Marxtolkningar'', 1977 *''Minervas uggla: om ekonomerna som maktens predikanter'', 1985 *''Politisk ekonomi: svenska och internationella tanketraditioner'', 1989 *''Ekonomi för alla'', 1991 *''Schamanerna: om ekonomi som förgylld vardag'', 1993 *''Den tredje vänstern'', 1997 *''Gunnar Westin Silverstolpe: folkbildare, poet och naivistisk nationalekonom'', 2003 *''Göteborgsskolan: praktisk, friakademisk, historisk, folkbildande, social'', 2006 *''Den tredje vänstern'' (new revised edition), 2009 *''Hallonöarna'', 2010 *''Albin Ström och det frihetliga spåret i svensk arbetarrörelse'', 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lonnroth, Johan 1937 births Living people Members of the Riksdag 1991–1994 Members of the Riksdag 1994–1998 Members of the Riksdag 1998–2002 Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 Members of the Riksdag from the Left Party (Sweden) People from Gothenburg