Bertil Näslund (4 April 1933 –15 February 2016) was a Swedish economist and

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at the

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. Näslund earned his PhD from

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where he was awarded the

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. His doctoral advisor was William W. Cooper. He was made a member of the

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in 1977, of the

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in 1990, and was a member of the Committee for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from 1993 to 2001, chairing the committee in 1997 and 1998.

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Prof. Näslund's homepage at HHS
1933 births 2016 deaths Swedish economists Swedish business theorists Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Stockholm School of Economics alumni {{Sweden-economist-stub

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