David Davidson (economist)

David Davidson (August 21, 1854 in Stockholm – 1942) was a Swedish economist. He was professor of economics and taxation law (then still under its former Swedish designation "finance law") at Uppsala University from 1890 to 1919.

David Davidson
BornAugust 21, 1854
Died1942
Academic career
Doctoral
students		Eli Heckscher

He founded and edited the journal Ekonomisk Tidskrift (known 1965-1975 as the Swedish Journal of Economics, and since 1976 as the Scandinavian Journal of Economics). Via the journal, Davidson has been credited with switching Swedish economic analysis from one that followed the German Historicist approach to one in which Anglo-American style economic theory played a more dominant role.[1][2]

His work has been described as Neo-Ricardian. Davidson was a doctoral advisor to Eli Heckscher.[3]

Davidson was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1920.

Major works
  • The Laws of Capital Formation, 1878.
  • Contribution to the History of the Theory of Rent, 1880.

References
  1. Sandelin, Bo (1991) The History of Swedish economic thought, Routledge
  2. "Leon Walras". Archived from the original on 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2016-11-12./profiles/ddavid.htm
  3. Carlson, Benny (2018). Swedish Economists in the 1930s Debate on Economic Planning. Springer. p. 35. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03700-0. ISBN 978-3-030-03699-7.
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