Sweden: A Socialist or a Market State?
Presented by John Hassler
September 29, 2011 - Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker / Author
John Hassler
John Hassler is Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He is associate editor of the Review of Economic Studies and Scandinavian Economic Review and an adjunct member of the Price Committee for the Price in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is a consultant to the Finance Ministry of Sweden and a former member of the Swedish Economic Council. His research covers areas in macroeconomics, political
economy, economic growth and public economics. He has published extensively in leading international journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Public Economics. John Hassler is a fellow of the net-works CESIfo, IZA and CEPR. He holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1994.
