Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
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The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation is a charitable foundation whose aims are to not only promote Finnish research in economics and medicine but also to maintain and support educational and research facilities in Finland. It was established in 1954 by the wife of Yrjö Jahnsson
, Mrs. Hilma Jahnsson.It supports the award of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award
and Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series. Theses lectures have been delivered by noteworthy economists since 1963.
Yrjö Jahnsson
Yrjö Jahnsson was a Finnish economics professor at the University of Helsinki . In the early 1930s he was openly critical of the strict monetary policy of the "orthodox" government and central bank. Ideologically he was a supporter of the Fennoman movement...
, Mrs. Hilma Jahnsson.It supports the award of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award
Yrjö Jahnsson Award
The Yrjö Jahnsson Award is a biennial award given by the Finnish Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation and the European Economic Association to European economists under the age of 45 "who have made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe." ...
and Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series. Theses lectures have been delivered by noteworthy economists since 1963.
The Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture series
- 1963 Kenneth J. Arrow Aspects of the Theory of Risk-Bearing
- 1967 Assar LindbeckAssar LindbeckCarl Assar Eugén Lindbeck is an economics professor and an artist. He is still an active economist at Stockholm University and at the ....
Monetary-Fiscal Analysis and General Equilibrium - 1968 L.R. Klein An Essay on the Theory of Economic Prediction
- 1970 Harry G. Johnson The Two-Sector Model of General Equilibrium
- 1973 John HicksJohn HicksSir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model , which...
The Crisis in Keynesian Economics - 1976 Edmond MalinvaudEdmond MalinvaudEdmond Malinvaud is a French economist. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences....
The Theory of Unemployment Reconsidered - 1978 James TobinJames TobinJames Tobin was an American economist who, in his lifetime, served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to...
Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity - 1980 János KornaiJános KornaiJános Kornai , is an economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states.- Biography :...
Growth, Shortage and Efficiency - 1983 Jacques H. Drèze Labour Management, Contracts and Capital Markets
- 1985 Robert E. Lucas Models of Business Cycles
- 1987 Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
Rational Behaviour - 1990 A.B. Atkinson Poverty in Europe
- 1992 Bengt Holmström Models of the Firm
- 1996 Paul R. Krugman Economic Theory and the East Asia Miracle
- 1999 Hans-Werner SinnHans-Werner SinnHans-Werner Sinn is a German economist and President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.- Education and career :...
The New Systems Competition - 2002 Alvin RothAlvin RothAlvin L. Roth was an American bridge player, considered one of the greatest of all time. He wrote several books on the game, and invented various bridge conventions that have become commonplace, including five-card majors, negative doubles, forcing notrump, and the unusual notrump.-Biography:Roth...
The Timing of Transactions: Strategic behavior, and market performance - 2005 Ricardo CaballeroRicardo J. CaballeroRicardo Jorge Caballero is a Chilean macroeconomist who holds the Ford International chair of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from MIT in 1988, and he taught at Columbia University before returning to the MIT faculty...
Macroeconomics and Restructuring in the Global Economy - 2007 Peter DiamondPeter DiamondPeter Diamond was an English actor who had trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and remembered as a stuntman on television or film....
Thinking about Taxes - 2010 Tim BesleyTim BesleyTimothy John Besley, CBE served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from September 2006 to August 2009 and is Kuwait professor of economics and political science at the London School of Economics, Director of the Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related...
, Torsten PerssonTorsten PerssonTorsten Persson is a Swedish economist and the director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He has also taught in England, the United States, and Israel...
Pillars of Prosperity: The political economics of state building