Assar Lindbeck

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Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (26 January 1930 – 28 August 2020) was a Swedish professor of economics at Stockholm University and at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).[1] Lindbeck was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[2]

Lindbeck's work focused in research on unemployment (e.g. the insider-outsider theory of employment), the welfare state (including the effect of changing social norms), and China's reformed economy.

Lindbeck died on 28 August 2020 in Stockholm, aged 90.[3]

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  1. "Research Institute of Industrial Economics". Official website. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  2. "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Assar Lindbeck (in Swedish)". Official website. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  3. "Nationalekonomen Assar Lindbeck har dött". Dagens Nyheter. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.