Sven Ingvar Svennilson (14 March 1908 – 1972) was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used b ...

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

that became known for his theories in

planned economics A planned economy is a type of economic system where investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economy-wide economic plans and production plans. A planned economy may use centralized, decentralized, parti ...

. He was a member of the Stockholm School of Economic Thought. From 1969–1971, he was a member of the committee that selects the laureates for the

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

, the Economics Prize Committee. With his dissertation, Ingvar Svennilson was associated with the planned economy, and he launched the interpretative scheme for corporate actions, where he set out both a distinction and a dynamic plan between causal aspects and finality aspects, and partly controlled governing and independent variables. The controlling variables are action parameters and the other two expectation variables. In later works, Svennilson would put forward theories of rolling planning. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1960, and of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which pro ...

from 1961.

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Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences 1908 births 1972 deaths 20th-century Swedish economists Financial economists Macroeconomists {{Sweden-economist-stub