''The Scandinavian Journal of Economics'' was established as the ''Ekonomisk Tidskrift'' (in
Swedish
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) in 1899 by
David Davidson. It became ''The Swedish Journal of Economics'' in 1965 (in
English
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) and then ''The Scandinavian Journal of Economics'' in 1976. Davidson was the editor until his retirement in 1939 at the age of 85, having run it virtually as a one-man operation.
In its early history all articles were written in Swedish. The first article in English was printed in 1947. The journal published many important works by
Gustaf Cassel,
Knut Wicksell
Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell (December 20, 1851 – May 3, 1926) was a leading Swedish economist of the Stockholm school. His economic contributions would influence both the Keynesian and Austrian schools of economic thought. He was married to t ...
,
Eli Heckscher
Eli Filip Heckscher (24 November 1879 – 23 December 1952) was a Swedish political economist and economic historian.
Biography
Heckscher was born in Stockholm, son of the Jewish Danish-born businessman Isidor Heckscher and his spouse Rosa Meyer ...
,
Gunnar Myrdal
Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( ; ; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money a ...
, and
Erik Lindahl
Erik Lindahl (21 November 1891 – 6 January 1960) was a Swedish economist. He was professor of economics at Uppsala University 1942–58 and in 1956–59 he was the President of the International Economic Association. He was an also an advis ...
. It is owned by a non-profit association and published on its behalf by
Wiley-Blackwell
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.
[Persson, Mats (1998) The First Century of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 100, No. 1, 100th Anniversary Symposium]
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 1.696.
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