Stefan Fölster

Stefan Fölster
Stefan Fölster in 2014
Born	Germany
Nationality	Swedish, German
Alma mater	University of Oxford (D Phil); Harvard University (MA); UCLA (BA)
Literary movement	New institutional economics
Notable work	The Public Wealth of Nations

Stefan Fölster (born 23 June 1959) is a Swedish economist and author. He is the President of the Swedish Reform Institute and associate professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Fölster is the author and co-author of several books on economic reform,^[1] including Robotrevolutionen,^[2] which looks at the winners and losers in the digital age, and Renaissance of Reforms,^[3] 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 Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth (Palgrave, 2015),^[4] included in The Economist — Books of the Year 2015^[5] and the Financial Times, FT's Best Books of the Year 2015.^[6]

Bibliography[]

• Reforming the Welfare State, University of Chicago, 2010; ISBN 9780226261928
• Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010; ISBN 978 1 84542 134 2
• The Welfare State in Europe - Challenges and Reforms, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000; ISBN 978-9282821183
• (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; ISBN 0-226-26178-6^[7]

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