Karl-Göran Mäler
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Karl-Göran Mäler (1939 – May 20, 2020) was a Swedish economist.
Mäler was born in 1939 in Sollefteå. He pursued undergraduate study in mathematics, statistics and economics at Stockholm University. Mäler specialized in economics at the graduate level, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in the United States before earning a doctorate from Stockholm University in 1972. He was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics between 1975 and 2002. Mäler was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1981, and served on its Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel until 1994. Mäler and Partha Dasgupta founded the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in 1992, and Mäler served as the institute's director through 2006. He and Dasgupta shared the Volvo Environment Prize in 2002. Mäler died in a Stockholm retirement home on 20 May 2020.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Karl-Göran Mäler 1939-2020". Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. 31 May 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ "Karl Göran Mäler in memoriam". Environment for Development. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
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