Books 1960–1979

International investment and the operations of multinational companies are phenomena which - because of their growing importance in the world economy - have attracted considerable interest in the last…

Financial conditions, investment behavior and growth of the firm have been a central area of inquiry at the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI) for a long time. This publicatio…

This is the set of papers on the Swedish micro-to-macro model which were presented at the IUI-IBM Sweden conference on micro simulation models, September 19-22, 1977. To our knowledge this is the firs…

Industrial structure and technical change have long been a traditional field of research at the Institute. Professor Nadiri's visit to the Institute during the summer of 1977 afforded us an opportunit…

The papers which form the present volume are the proceedings of the symposium "Personal Integrity and the Need for Data in the Social Sciences" held on March 15-17, 1976 at Hässelby Slott, Stockholm u…

What is a rational environmental policy? Which value does a certain environmental quality have to society? Which are society's costs for obtaining or maintaining this quality? In lack of market values…

Business firms rely more and more on formal planning procedures and for large firms efficient methods to manage a geographically and technologically diversified organization from a distance have becom…

This book is the joint work of a number of research institutes in several countries. The initiative for the, inquiry came early in 1967 when the National Institute of Economic a11d Social Research, Lo…

Agricultural policy is often considered a politically sensitive subject. The entire responsibility for the structural development of this branch of economic activity has been assumed in practice by th…

The rapidly increasing merger activity in Swedish industry has been one of the most noticeable external signs of the structural change of the 1960's. The present investigation provides the first compl…

In the complicated and technical process of present day collective bargaining comparisons of wages and salaries are done by more and more refined methods. Similar comparisons are central both in profe…

This study is Part One of my doctoral dissertation. It was first published in Swedish in 1950 only a couple of months after the death of Joseph A. Schumpeter, who was my main source of inspiration in…

The survey and analysis of financial patterns within manufacturing industries have long been an important part of the IUI research program. In this study the importance of financial factors in short-r…

Syftet med denna monografi är tvåfaldigt. Dels skall den behandla bostadsbeståndets struktur 1960 och de förändringar som skett sedan 1945, dels skall den analysera boendeförhållandena 1960 och föränd…

Our background knowledge for reliable macro-economic forecasts of business responses to the application of different contra-cyclical measures is at present rather scanty. This was the case, when the i…

This book is an account of a study of the way in which the Swedish economy functions in its production of goods and services. The producing part of the economy-the production system-has been represent…