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The Passing Of Axel Leijonhufvud  On May 5, Swedish economist Axel Leijonhufvud died at age 88. I only met him once when he attended a seminar I gave in Trento, Italy a decade ago. I always admired his work and felt lots of sympathy with it, and I think he liked what I had to say at least in my seminar that day.  He was someone who stood outside of orthodoxy while not being clearly tied to any particular school of economic thought.  However, he...

A must-read (not least because of the interview videos where Leijonhufvud gets the opportunity to comment on the ‘madness’ of modern mainstream macroeconomics)! Axel Leijonhufvud's On Keynesian Economics And The Economics Of Keynes: A Study In Monetary Theory is a free download at archive.org here.Lars P. Syll’s BlogAxel Leijonhufvud — the road not takenLars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University