Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260289 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2019:19
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
For many decades, Ingemar Ståhl was a well-known economist in Sweden. He introduced new perspectives into research, teaching and public debate. He made his presence felt in areas as diverse as housing policy, defense economics, energy policy, financial economics, industrial policy, higher education, union controlled wage earner funds, law and economics, health-care economics and taxation. He advocated a public choice perspective which in his view provided a more realistic interpretation of the behavior of politicians and bureaucrats than that provided by traditional welfare economics. As an active participant in the public debate, he provided a pungent commentary on a wide range of issues. He contributed to the shift in Swedish economic policy from interventionist controls and collectivist systems inspired by Social-Democratic ideology to market-oriented and liberal solutions. Several of his proposals, most prominently the present system of student finance remain part of current Swedish public policy.
Subjects: 
Public choice
welfare economics
property rights
socialism
liberalism
welfare state
Sweden
JEL: 
A11
B21
D51
D72
H43
I22
J51
L51
P48
Q18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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