LETTER FROM STOCKHOLM

摘要

After Stieg Larsson's international bestselling trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the screening of Henkel Manning's Wallander detective series in the UK - both the original Swedish and a new English language adaptation - one would be forgiven for thinking that Stockholm is a hotbed of murder and intrigue. As such, Energy Economist thinks it right to construct its own conspiracy theory.The International Association for Energy Economics' 2011 International Conference was opened by Per Unkel, governor of Stockholm, in the Stockholm School of Economics. Stockholm has unilaterally declared itself the capital of Scandinavia, he noted. No, not a geographical error, but unconsciously, or perhaps consciously, explaining the general antipathy that Norwegians, Finns and Danes display towards their Swedish neighbors.