Hans Martin Staffan Burenstam Linder (née Linder; 13 September 1931 – 22 July 2000) was a

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economist and conservative politician, who was Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1976 to 1978 and from 1979 to 1981. He was the president of the

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between 1986 and 1995.

Background

He was the son of forester Martin Linder and Marianne Linder, née Burenstam. In 1956 he married Marie-Thérèse Dyrssen, who was headmaster of

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from 1989–2003. As an adult, Staffan Linder began to use the name Burenstam, whose last bearer, his grandfather Fredrik Burenstam, had died in 1949. He still used the name Linder in his academic publications, and it was not until the 1980s that his family legally changed their name to Burenstam Linder.

Academic career

During his time as a PhD candidate, he was mainly supervised by

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. His dissertation in 1961, ''An Essay on Trade and Transformation'', initiated a new model of international trade based on the demand pattern known as the

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. Linder was a professor of

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at the

from 1974 onwards, as well as the school's

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from 1986 to 1995. He was a visiting professor at

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from 1962 to 1963,

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in 1966, and

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from 1983 to 1984. He received an honorary doctorate from the

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. He was also an economic advisor at

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from 1965–75. In the period 1993–1995, Burenstam Linder chaired the Steering Committee of the

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, which included the

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as he founded in 1994.Kristensen, Gustav N. 2010. Born into a Dream. EuroFaculty and the Council of the Baltic Sea States. Berliner Wissentshafts-Verlag. .

Political career

Burenstam Linder had long been a key figure in the

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. There were several times when people thought he would take the office of party leader, especially during the late 1970s, when many thought he should succeed

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. His political positions include

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from 1969 to 1986 (representing

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), Vice Leader of the Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981, Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1976 to 1978 and from 1979 to 1981, Appointed Agent of

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(''Riksbanksfullmäktige'') from 1991 to 1994 and Member of the

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from 1995 to 2000.

Publications

*(1961) ''An Essay on Trade and Transformation'' OCLC 2683384 *(1965) ''Trade and Trade Policy for Development'' OCLC 274224 *(1969) ''Den rastlösa välfärdsmänniskan'' (lit.: The restless Welfare Person) OCLC 474148381 *(1970) ''The Harried Leisure Class'' *(1970) ''Statsmakt eller maktstat?'' (lit.: Power of State or Dictatorship?) OCLC 10289248 *(1983) ''Den hjärtlösa välfärdsstaten'' (lit.: the heartless Welfare State) *(1986) ''The Pacific century: economic and political consequences of Asian-Pacific dynamism'' ; also appeared in Swedish as ''Den nya Nya Världen: de ekonomiska och politiska konsekvenserna av den dynamiska utvecklingen i Stillahavsregionen''

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burenstam Linder, Staffan Members of the Riksdag from the Moderate Party Swedish Ministers for Trade Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics 1931 births 2000 deaths Moderate Party MEPs MEPs for Sweden 1995–1999 MEPs for Sweden 1999–2004 Stockholm School of Economics alumni 20th-century Swedish economists Swedish Ministers for Nordic Cooperation