Knut Wicksell on the Causes of Poverty and its Remedy

<p>Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater understanding of the social sciences as a whole.</p><p>In this outstanding volume Mats Lundahl one of the world's leading development economists examines Wicksell's thinking in the area of poverty and shows the importance of his contributions to this field.</p>