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
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in Stockholm.
Fölster is the author and co-author of several books on economic reform, including ''Robotrevolutionen'', which looks at the winners and losers in the digital age, and ''Renaissance of Reforms'', 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), included in
The Economist
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— Books of the Year 2015 and the
Financial Times
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, FT's Best Books of the Year 2015.
Bibliography
*''Reforming the Welfare State'', University of Chicago, 2010;
*''Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth'', Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010;
*''The Welfare State in Europe - Challenges and Reforms'', Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000;
*(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;
[https://www.nber.org/chapters/c6526.pdf ]
References
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1959 births
Living people
Swedish economists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Harvard University alumni