Assar Lindbeck

Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (born January 26, 1930) is an economics professor and an artist. He is still an active economist at Stockholm University and at the [http://www.ifn.se/eng Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)] .Lindbeck has done research on unemployment (e.g. the insider-outsider theory of employment), the welfare state (including the effect of changing social norms), and China's reformed economy.

He is well-known to students of economics for his quip that "rent ceilings are the most effective means yet for destroying cities, even more effective than the hydrogen bomb." [http://www.whfreeman.com/college/pdfs/krugman_canadian/CH04.pdf]

Lindbeck has held several small art exhibitions with his own productions in Stockholm. His paintings are typically introspective. Prior to his artistic career he was the head of the Institute for International Economic Studies [http://www.iies.su.se] at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Lindbeck has published a large number of scientific articles and books, including:
*"The housing shortage. A study of the price system in the housing market" (with Ragnar Bentzel och Ingemar Ståhl), Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, 1963.
*"The Insider-Outsider Theory of Employment and Unemployment", (with Dennis Snower) MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988.
*"The Swedish Experiment", SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 1997.