Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Ph.D. |
Prename: | Karin |
Surname: | Kock (Kock-Lindberg) |
Profession: | Economist; professor; politician |
Birthday: | 07/02/1891 |
Place of birth: | Stockholm |
Date of death: | 07/28/1976 |
Place of death: | Stockholm |
Married to: | Hugo Lindberg |
Education: | University studies (economics) in Stockholm; 1929 doctorate |
Career: | 1933–45 lecturer; 1945 professor of economics, Stockholm; 1947–49 member of the Swedish government; 1950–57 general director of the Swedish National Statistical Office |
Memberships: | Swedish Federation of University Women; 1916–32 chair of the Swedish University Women’s Club; 1939–45 International Federation of University Women (IFUW) vice president; 1956 American Statistical Association; 1958 International Statistical Institute |
Biographical literature: | Ingvar Ohlsson, “Karin Kock, 1891–1976,” *International Statistical Review* 45 (1977), no. 1: 109; “Karin Kock,” *Nationalencyklopedin* (1993), vol. 11, 145; Kirsti Niskanen, *Karriär i männens värld. Feministen och ekonomen Karin Kock* (Stockholm: SNS, 2007, with an English summary) |
Major works: | *A Study of Interest Rates* (London: P.S. King & Son, 1929); *International Trade Policy and the GATT* (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1969) |