Ingemar Ståhl : A Market Liberal in the Swedish Welfare State

Jonung, Lars

| 2020

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Ingemar Ståhl was a creative, highly productive professor of economics at the University of Lund between 1971 and 2005. For many decades, he was a well-known economist in Sweden. He introduced new perspectives into research, teaching and public debate. Almost all his work dealt with various aspects of the public sector. He made his presence felt in areas as diverse as defense economics, rent controls, index-linked loans, higher education, energy policy, social security, industrial policy, taxation, wage earner funds, and healthcare economics. His best-known contribution to economic policy was his design of the successful system of student finance in the early 1960s which is still in operation in Sweden.   In his active years, he was the foremost expert on the Swedish mixed economy. Ståhl was fascinated by the rapid growth of the public sector in the 1970s and 1980s. In numerous...

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