CASSEL, GUSTAV
(1866-
), Swedish economist, was born
in 1866. After taking his degree in mathematics at the university,
he became a lecturer, and was appointed professor of national
economy at the High School of Stockholm in 1904. He studied
and travelled widely abroad. In addition to a number of books
in Swedish, he published the following works in other languages:
Das Recht auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag
(1900);
The Nature and
Necessity of Interest
(1903);
Theoretische Sozialokonomie
(1919).
His
Memorandum on the World's Monetary Problems
, published
by the League of Nations for the International Financial
Conference in Brussels in 1920, attracted widespread attention.
He was a member of many committees dealing with matters of
State in Sweden and devoting much labour to the creation of a
better system of budget exposition and control (1905-21). He
was one of the Swedish representatives at the International
Chamber of Commerce meeting in London in 1921. He became
a member of
Svenska Vetenskapsakademien
and correspondent
for Sweden to the Royal Economic Society.