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Sweden's Successful Financin of a Strong Welfare System: A Model for Other Countries?
Mårten Blix, IFN, presents his and Henrik Jordahl's book Privatizing Welfare Services –Lessons from the Swedish Experiment at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF.
Event
Publish date 12/14/2021
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Meet Europe's Richest
Who are the richest people in Europe? Where do they get their money and what do they do with it? How do they convert their financial wealth into political influence? And how much inequality is reasona…
Event
Publish date 9/15/2023
Workshop in Economic History
The 3rd edition of the Workshop in Economic History will take place in Uppsala on May 22 and 23, 2025. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a space for both senior and junior scholars (including…
Event
Publish date 5/22/2025
Book review: Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great Shool System – and How to Reverse the Trend
Magnus Henrekson's and Johan Wennström's book Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great Shool System – and How to Reverse the Trend, is reviewed in The Independent Review.
Media coverage
Publish date 10/21/2022
Procure Better: An Evaluation of Private Ambulance Providers’ Efficiency in Emergency Medical Services under New Contractual Regulations
A common argument against the economic theory that certain services are unsuitable for private providers is that the issues instead stem from inadequate expertise on the part of the contract issuer. W…
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Policy Seminar: Is the Market Economy Culturally Harmful?
IFN arranged a policy seminar on March 7, 2024, entitled “Is the Market Economy Culturally Harmful?”. It featured the presentation of two studies from the research project “Cultures of Trust and Insti…
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Publish date 3/8/2024
Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom
This project entails two interrelated core themes: Can institutions embodying economic freedom, contrary to the skepticism of some, contribute to fairness, trust, equality and responsibility; and can…
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IFN researcher receives Pearson Prize
Joacim Tåg, Associate Professor at IFN, received a prize for his article "What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?", written jointly with Professor Matti Keloharju and Professor Samuli Knüpfer (both…
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Publish date 10/24/2022
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Fredrik Sjöholm member of the Rockwool Foundation Program Committé for research on Productivity and Competition
Fredrik Sjöholm is one of the members of the Danish Rockwool Foundation's new investment in research on productivity and competitiveness.
With the new research unit, the Rockwool Foundation wants to…
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Publish date 1/22/2025
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Euro discussion returns due to weak Swedish krona
Swedish krona or Euro? Lars Calmfors, researcher at IFN, who investigated whether Sweden should join the single European currency on behalf of the government in the 1990s, in interviewed in Sveriges R…
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Publish date 7/3/2023