Stockholm School of Economics

Stockholm School of Economics   (University)
Formation	1909
Headquarters	Stockholm, Sweden
Type	Private
Member of	Wallenberg Sphere
Swedish business school mostly funded by the Wallenebergs

The Stockholm School of Economics is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with PhD- and Executive education programs.

The school is the only privately funded university in Sweden. 82 percent of the funding comes from the Stockholm School of Economics Association, founded in 1906, and mostly from the large Swedish business families (mostly Wallenberg, some Bonnier and others). 18 percent of the funding is public.

SSE is accredited by EQUIS and is a member of CEMS.

SSE has founded sister organizations: SSE Riga in Riga, Latvia, and SSE Russia in St Petersburg and Moscow, Russia. It also operates the European Institute of Japanese Studies (Japanese, a research institute in Tokyo, Japan.

History

The Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 1909 on private initiative as a response to rapid industrialization and a growing need for well educated businessmen and company managers and has maintained close ties with the business community ever since. The foundation followed a substantial donation in 1903 by Knut Agathon Wallenberg. The name handelshögskola (roughly "college of commerce") was a parallel to the German term Handelshochschule, used by a number of German institutions started in the years before, commencing with Handelshochschule Leipzig in 1898. The term högskola was at this time also established for specialised higher educational institutions outside the universities, such as the Royal Institute of Technology, (Kungl.) Tekniska högskolan, which bore that name from 1877.

While founded as a business school, the subject of economics featured prominently in the research and curriculum of the school from the beginning.

The most well known scholars of the Stockholm School of Economics are arguably the economists Eli Heckscher (professor of economics and statistics 1909–1929, professor of economic history 1929–1945), and Bertil Ohlin (professors of economics). Heckscher is also known as the founder of economic history as an independent academic discipline and his work Svenskt Arbete och Liv is a fundamental work within this subject.

Ohlin was also a leading figure within the school of doctrine with the same name, the so-called Stockholm school; a group of leading Scandinavian economists influenced by Knut Wicksell, most of them active in Stockholm, either at the Stockholm School of Economics or the Stockholm University College. This school of doctrine was to have a profound influence on post-WWII Swedish economic policy and the development of the modern Scandinavian Welfare state. Heckscher and Ohlin jointly developed the so-called Heckscher-Ohlin theory, the standard international mathematical model of international trade. Bertil Ohlin received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 (shared with British economist James Meade). Other prominent members of the Stockholm school were the Stockholm University professor Gustav Cassel, who developed standard economic theory of Purchasing power parity and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York City, United States.

The school is a full member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a group of schools of public policy, public administration, and international studies.

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Assar Lindbeck	A O Wallenberg Professor in National Economics and Banking Science	1964	1971	Attended Bilderberg/1984
Staffan Burenstam Linder	Rector	1986	1995	Attended Bilderberg/1988
Carl Johan Åberg	Chairman	1991	2002

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Gustaf Adolf	22 April 1906	26 January 1947	Sweden	Royalty Deep state operative	Swedish royal who probably could have played an important role in post war Europe had he not died in 1947 air crash.
Magdalena Andersson	23 January 1967		Sweden	Politician	Attended the 2016 Bilderberg as Swedish finance minister. Supporter of the Great Reset who was briefly Prime Minister of Sweden.
Erik Belfrage	13 April 1946	18 April 2020	Sweden	Diplomat Banker Businessperson	Swedish diplomat and banker. Wallenberg associate. Attended the 2005 Bilderberg
Claes Dahlbäck	6 June 1947		Sweden	Businessperson	Swedish businessman, Goldman Sachs
Lars Heikensten	13 September 1950		Sweden	Economist Central banker	Swedish central banker and Nobel Foundation
Stefan Ingves	23 May 1953		Sweden	Economist Central banker	Governor of Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden
Axel Iveroth	August 1914	1993	Sweden	Businessperson	Headed the Swedish Industrial Association for 20 years
Martin Kragh	9 August 1980		Sweden	Academic	Leader of the Swedish cluster of the Integrity Initiative
Staffan Burenstam Linder	13 September 1931	22 July 2000	Sweden	Economist	Wallenberg Sphere Swedish economist and key figure in the Moderate Party. Bilderberg/1988.
Bertil Ohlin	23 April 1899	3 August 1979	Sweden	Politician Economist	Swedish economist and politician who attended 3 Bilderbergs up to the 1962 Bilderberg
Per Westerberg	2 August 1951		Sweden	Politician Businessperson	Minister for Industry and Trade from 1991 to 1994. Speaker of the Swedish Parliament 2006-2014.
Lars Wohlin	24 June 1933	24 September 2018	Sweden	Politician Central banker Deep state operative	Governor of the central bank Sveriges Riksbank 1979-82. Attended all Bilderberg meetings those four years.
Anders Åslund	17 February 1952		Sweden	Economist Deep state operative	Quad Bilderberger, Integrity Initiative. Worked on the Russian demographic catastrophe in the 1990s.

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