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Encyclopedia > Gustav Cassel
Karl Gustav Cassel
Karl Gustav Cassel
Karl Gustav Cassel
Born October 20, 1866
Stockholm, Sweden
Died January 14, 1945
Residence Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Field Economics
Institution University of Stockholm
Known for Purchasing Power Parity
Work on Interest


Karl Gustav Cassel (born October 20, 1866) was a Swedish economist and was Professor of Economics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Stockholm [, ] is the capital and the largest City of Sweden. ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... Stockholm University Stockholm University, or Stockholms universitet, is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... The Purchasing power parity (PPP) theory was developed by Gustav Cassel in 1920. ... Interest is the rent paid to borrow money. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Alan Greenspan, former chairman, United States Federal Reserve. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ...


Cassel perspective on economic reality, and especially on the role of interest, was rooted in British neoclassicism and in the nascent Swedish schoolis. He is perhaps best know for his article Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), in which he raised the idea of Purchasing Power Parity.
He was also a founding member of the Swedish school of economics along with Knut Wicksell and David Davidson. Cassel came to economics from mathematics. He earned an advanced degree in mathematics from the University of Uppsala and was made professor at the University of Stockholm during the late 1890s but went to Germany before the turn of the century to study economics, publishing papers spanning just under forty years.
Among his other contributions apart from the rudiments of a purchasing power parity theory of exchange rates (1921). He produced an 'overconsumption' theory of the trade cycle (1918) and Nature and Necessity of Interest (1903). He also worked on the German reparations problem. The Purchasing power parity (PPP) theory was developed by Gustav Cassel in 1920. ... Uppsala University Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. ... Stockholm University Stockholm University, or Stockholms universitet, is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ...



 

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