A readable collection for anyone interested in economic history, history of economic thought, or the ideas lying behind Swedish economic policy.

Preface; Dramatis personae at the end of 1937 Klas Fregert; Introduction and summary Lars Jonung; Part I. The Roots: 1. The political economy club and the Stockholm school, 1917-1951 Rolf G. H. Henriksson; Comment Gustav Cederwall; 2. Gösta Bagge, the Rockefeller Foundation, and empirical social science research in Sweden, 1924-1940 Earlene Craver; Comment Benny Carlson; Comment Bengt Metelius; 3. The communities on unemployment and the Stockholm school Eskil Wadensjö; Comment Bo Gustafsson; Comment Otto Steiger; Part II. The Approach of the Stockholm School: 4. Expectation and plan: the microeconomics of the Stockholm school Claes-Henric Siven; Comment William J. Baumol; 5. Sequence analysis and optimization Karl O. Faxén; 6. There were two Stockholm schools Lars Werin; 7. On formal dynamics: from Lundberg to chaos analysis William J. Baumol; Comment Björn Thalberg; Comment Kumaraswamy Velupillai; 8. Lundberg, Keynes, and the riddles of a general theory Claes Berg; Comment Mats Persson; 9. Macrodynamics and the Stockholm school Hans Brems; Comment Björn Hansson; 10. Ohlin and the general theory Robert W. Clower; Comment Assar Lindbeck; Comment Don Patinkin; 11. The monetary economics of the Stockholm school Johan Myrman; 12. The Austrians and the Stockholm school: two failures in the development of modern macroeconomics? David Laidler; Comment Axel Leijonhufvud; 13. The political arithmetrics of the Stockholm school Kumaraswamy Velupillai; Comment Jan Petersson; 14. After the Stockholm school Björn Hansson; Comment David Laidler; Comment Lars E. O. Svensson; Part III. The Impact of the Stockholm School: 15. The Swedish influence on Value and Capital Sir John Hicks; 16. The London school of economics and the Stockholm school in the 1930s Nadim Shehadi; Comment Brinley Thomas; 17. Thoughts on the Stockholm school and on Scandinavian economics Paul A. Samuelson; Comment Don Patinkin; 18. Ragnar Frisch and the Stockholm school Jens Christopher Andvig; Comment Björn Thalberg; 19. The late development of the Stockholm school and the criticism from John Åkerman Jan Petersson; Comment Rolf G. H. Henriksson; Part IV. What Remains of the Stockholm School?: Roundtable discussion Assar Lindbeck, Don Patinkin, David Laidler, Kumaraswamy Velupillai, and Axel Leijonhufvud; The Stockholm school: a non-Swedish bibliography compiled by Klas Fregert.