David Davidson was a noted Swedish economist. He was professor of economics

Economics

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 and taxation law (then still under its former Swedish designation "finance law") at Uppsala University

Uppsala University

Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477. It consistently ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of...

 from 1890 to 1919.

He founded and edited the journal Ekonomisk Tidskrift (known 1965-1975 as the Swedish Journal of Economics, and since 1976 as the Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics was established as the Ekonomisk Tidskrift in 1899 by David Davidson. It became the Swedish Economic Journal in 1965 and then the Scandinavian Journal of Economics in 1976...

). Via the journal, Davidson has been credited with switching Swedish economic analysis from one that followed the German Historicist approach to one in which Anglo-American style economic theory played a more dominant role.

His work has been described as Neo-Ricardian.

Davidson was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. The Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization which acts to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics.The Academy was founded on 2...

in 1920.

Major works

• The Laws of Capital Formation, 1878.
• Contribution to the History of the Theory of Rent, 1880.