Erik Filip Lundberg was a Swedish

Sweden

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 economist

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. He was a professor

Professor

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 of political economics at Stockholm University

Stockholm University

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 and a member of the Stockholm School

Stockholm school (economics)

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 of economic thought. From 1969–1979, he was a member of the committee that selects the laureates for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, the Economics Prize Committee, and served as the committee's chairman from 1975–1979.