Count Carl Peter Bastiat Hamilton (born 1 January 1946 in

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) is a

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and

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. He has been a

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for the Liberal People's Party from 1997 to 1998, and again since 2002. He sits in the parliament's

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and is vice-chair of the Committee on EU Affairs. He is also a member of the party board of the Liberal People's Party. From 1993 to 1994 he served as an Undersecretary of State at the Swedish

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. Hamilton holds a

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from

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in 1974. From 1992 to 1997 he served as a

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in economics at the

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

. During the mid '90s he worked as

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. He has been a part-time professor in

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at the

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since 1999.

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Carl B. Hamilton
at the Liberal People's Party
Carl B. Hamilton
at the

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1946 births Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics Living people Members of the Riksdag 1994–1998 Members of the Riksdag 1998–2002 Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 Members of the Riksdag 2006–2010 Members of the Riksdag 2010–2014 Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden) Politicians from Gothenburg Swedish counts Swedish economists Swedish people of Scottish descent {{Sweden-LiberalPeople-politician-stub