A talk in English by Andreas Bergh. How this country became rich and egalitarian and why it manages to combine very high taxes with a thriving market economy.
ANDREAS BERGH received a PhD in Economics 2003 from Lund University in Sweden, and was visiting scholar at Harvard in 2004 at the Centre for Basic Research in the Social Sciences. His research concerns the welfare state as well as institutional economics, and recent publications include European Economic Review, European Sociological Review, Political Studies and Social Science Quarterly. He has also co-edited a book called Institutional Competition (Edward Elgar, 2008) and is leading a research project on the reform process in mature welfare states. He is currently affiliated with Lund University, the Ratio Institute in Stockholm and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm.

See Andreas Bergh on video at http://reason.tv/video/show/andreas-bergh-inteview

The public is invited and admission is free. A reception will follow.

For further information: Tel.: 212-854-4015; e-mail: vam1@columbia.edu.