Leijonhufvud, Axel.

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Birth 1933-09-06
Swedes,
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Economist and professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.

From the description of Papers, 1958-1973. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 37687186

Swedish economist, currently professor emeritus at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and professor at the University of Trento, Italy. Leijonhufvud's main areas of academic research include economic theory, monetary theory, and the history of economic doctrines.

1933 Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1960 Received B.A., University of Lund (now Lund University) 1961 Received M.A., University of Pittsburgh 1964 Becomes Acting Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of California in Los Angeles 1967 Received Ph.D. in Economics, Northwestern University 1967 Appointed Assistant Professor at UCLA 1968 Publishes On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of Keynes: A Study in Monetary Theory 1971 Accepts Full Professorship at UCLA 1983 Awarded an honoris causa doctoral degree, University of Lund (now Lund University) 1991 1997 Founder and Director of the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA 2000 Publishes Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination: Selected Essays (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) 2004 2008 Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy, University of Trento in Italy 2007 2011 Wrote over a dozen articles for the Council of Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and VoxEU on the recent fiscal crises of the European Union

From the guide to the Axel Leijonhufvud papers, 1953-1980 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

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  • Economic history
  • Economists
  • Keynesian economics
  • Monetary theory

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