Stefan Fölster (born 23 June 1959) is a Swedish economist and author. He is the president of the Swedish Reform Institute and an associate professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Stefan Fölster | |
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 Stefan Fölster in 2014 | |
| Born | Germany |
| Nationality | Swedish, German |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (D Phil); Harvard University (MA); UCLA (BA) |
| Literary movement | New institutional economics |
| Notable work | The Public Wealth of Nations |
| Relatives | Gunnar and Alva Myrdal (maternal grandparents) |
Fölster is the author and co-author of several books on economic reform,[1] including Robotrevolutionen,[2] which looks at the winners and losers in the digital age, and Renaissance of Reforms,[3] that was based on an analysis of 109 governments that completed their term of power in OECD countries between the mid-1990s and 2012. With Dag Detter, Fölster wrote The Public Wealth of Nations: How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth (Palgrave, 2015),[4] included in The Economist — Books of the Year 2015[5] and the Financial Times, FT's Best Books of the Year 2015.[6]
Bibliography
edit- Reforming the Welfare State, University of Chicago, 2010; ISBN 9780226261928
- Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010; ISBN 978 1 84542 134 2
- The Welfare State in Europe - Challenges and Reforms, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000; ISBN 978-9282821183
- (with Sam Peltzman) "The Social Costs of Regulation and Lack of Competition in Sweden: A Summary" in The Welfare State in Transition: Reforming the Swedish Model, Chicago University, 1997; ISBN 0-226-26178-6[7]
References
edit- ^ "LIBRIS - sökning: förf:(Fölster, Stefan, 1959-)".
- ^ "Robotrevolutionen – ny bok från Stefan Fölster". 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Renaissance for Reforms".
- ^ Detter, Dag; Fölster, Stefan (2015). The Public Wealth of Nations - How Management of Public - D. Detter - Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137519863. ISBN 978-1-349-70490-3.
- ^ "Books of the year 2015: Shelf life". The Economist. 5 December 2015.
- ^ "The FT's best books of 2015". Financial Times. 27 November 2015.
- ^ https://www.nber.org/chapters/c6526.pdf [bare URL PDF]