Bo Södersten from Left to Right: Portrait of a Political Economist

Preface
Praise for Bo Södersten from Left to Right
Contents
Chapter 1: Growing Up
	Swedish Society 1930–1970
	Childhood
	A Lucky Boy
Chapter 2: Uppsala
	The Licentiate Thesis
	Incipient Socialist Agitator
	Literary Interlude
Chapter 3: Doctor
	The Doctoral Dissertation: Growth and Trade
	Housing Policy: The Three Rents
	The Thesis Defense
Chapter 4: After the Dissertation
	Articles
	Later Efforts
	The Guy with the Book
	Criticism and Competition
Chapter 5: Essays
	Economic and Politics
	Herbert Tingsten
	Per Albin and the Brotherhood
	Reformist Socialism
Chapter 6: The Hunt for a Chair
	The Swedish Institute for Social Research
	Gothenburg and Lund
Chapter 7: The Housing Market
	Real Estate Taxation
	After the Book
Chapter 8: The Dream of the Labor-Managed Economy
	The Problem of Capital Formation
	Micro Aspects
	Wage-Earners’ Funds
	A Utopian Idea
Chapter 9: Contrasting Economies: Sweden and the Developing Countries
	More Textbooks
	Economic Development
Chapter 10: Three Continents
	Cuba
	Chile: Allende and Pinochet
	Africa
	Asia
Chapter 11: In Parliament
	Trying to Make It
	Housing
	The Stumbling Block
Chapter 12: The Debater
	Economic Policy
Chapter 13: Saulus Falls off the Horse
	A New Government
	Back in Power
	Left Turn
	Jobless Growth
Chapter 14: The Overgrown Public Sector
	Taxes
	Nourishing and Draining
	Pensions: The Reform of the ATP System
Chapter 15: Nuclear Power, Childcare, and Higher Education
	Nuclear Power
	Daycare Centers or Preschools?
	University Politics
Chapter 16: Two Controversial Issues
	Immigration
	More Welfare Abuse: “The Catching Culture”
Chapter 17: Concentration of Power and Corruption
	The Limits of Democracy
	Corrupt Politicians
Chapter 18: Systemic Defects
	Low-Productive Health Care
	Reforming the Welfare State
Chapter 19: Book Reviews and Biography
	Biographies
	Nobel Laureates
	Culture
	Torsten Gårdlund
Chapter 20: Who Was He, Really?
	Family Life
	Student Relations
	The Academic
	Political Failure
	A Convinced Provocateur
	The Intellectual
	The Sybarite
	The Purpose of Life
References
Index