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Knut Wicksellwas a Swedish economist, the foremost in his generation and internationally renowned for his pioneering work in monetary theory.
In Geldzins und GĂŒterpreise (1898; Interest and Prices, 1936) he propounded an explanation of price-level movements by an aggregate demandâsupply analysis focussed on the relations between prospective profit and interest rates. This made Wicksell a forerunner of modern monetary theory and anticipated the work of John Maynard Keynes in A Treatise on Money (1930). In Ăber Wert, Kapital und Rente (1893; Value, Capital and Rent, 1954), Wicksell emerged as an originator of the marginal productivity theory. There and in other studies he also made striking advances in capital theory.
Wicksell was professor at the University of Lund from 1900 to 1916.
