''The Scandinavian Journal of Economics'' was established as the ''Ekonomisk Tidskrift'' (in

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

) in 1899 by David Davidson. It became ''The Swedish Journal of Economics'' in 1965 (in

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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

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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 ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.696.

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