Thomas William Thorburn (April 13, 1913 - March 13, 2003) was a Swedish economist, and Professor of Business Administration at the

Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with ...

, known from his work on the "Supply and demand of water transport" (1960), and the "Cost-benefit analysis in language planning" (1971).Fasold, Ralph W., and Robert Hooke. ''The sociolinguistics of society.'' Vol. 1. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Born in

Uddevalla Uddevalla (old no, Oddevold) is a town and the seat of Uddevalla Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. In 2015, it had a population of 34 781. It is located at a bay of the south-eastern part of Skagerrak. The beaches of Uddevalla are ...

, Thorburn obtained his PhD in 1960 at the

with the thesis, entitled "Supply and demand of water transport: studies in cost and revenue structures of ships, ports and transport buyers with respect to their effects on supply and demand of water carriage of goods." After his graduation Thorburn served his academic career at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he was Professor in Business Administration from 1961 to 1978. He was succeeded by Nils Brunsson.

Selected publications

* Thomas Thorburn. ''Supply and Demand of Water Transport: Studies in Cost and Revenue Structures of Ships, Ports, and Transport Buyers with Respect to Their Effects on Supply and Demand of Water Transport of Goods.'' Business Research Institute, Stockholm School for Economics, 1960 * Thomas Thorburn. ''Förvaltningsekonomi: ekonomiska beslut i offentlig förvaltning.'' Prisma, 1974 * Thorburn, Thomas. ''Economics of transport: the Swedish case, 1780-1980.'' Vol. 12. Almqvist & Wiksell Intl, 2000. Articles, a selection: * Thorburn, Thomas. "Cost-benefit analysis in language planning." in: ''Can language be planned'' (1971): 283-305.

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1913 births 2003 deaths Swedish business theorists Stockholm School of Economics alumni Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics People from Uddevalla Municipality 20th-century Swedish economists {{economist-stub