Tino Sanandaji

Tino Sanandaji
Born (1980-05-17) 17 May 1980 (age 44)
Tehran, Iran
EducationMSc from Stockholm School of Economics. M.A in economics from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies
OccupationEconomics researcher at the stockholm school of economics
RelativesNima Sanandaji (brother)
WebsiteOfficial website

Tino Sanandaji (born 17 May 1980) is an Iranian–Swedish economist and author.[1][2]

Early life and career

Sanandaji arrived in Sweden in 1989 with his family as a 9-year-old and grew up in Norrköping and Ale Municipality.[3] He earned a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics in 2003 and a PhD from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago in 2011. His PhD dissertation is titled Essays in Entrepreneurship Policy.[4]

As of 2017, Sanandaji works as a researcher at the Institute for Economic and Business History Research at the Stockholm School of Economics.[5] He has authored a number of scholarly articles on economics, with a focus on entrepreneurship and taxation. Sanandaji also has a blog where he publishes articles on government policy. He is especially critical of the far-right Sweden Democrats party.[6]

Sanandaji is a vocal critic of Sweden's policy on immigration of low-educated migrants from developing countries,[7] but also of supporters of the anti-immigration party Sweden Democrats.[8] He approaches the issue from an internal perspective, as both an immigrant himself and a former resident of various areas of social deprivation.[9] According to Sanandaji, he has not conducted basic research on immigration but instead refers to research and statistics collected by other researchers.[10] As of 2014, he describes his profession as economic research and writing on immigration as an unpaid hobby.[11]

Author

Sanandaji has authored five books. His first two books were coauthored with Magnus Henrekson: Owner taxation and entrepreneurship – on tax theory and the Swedish policy debate (SNS Press, 2004) and Institutional Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2012).[12][13] He then coauthored SuperEntrepreneurs – and how your country can get them (the Centre for Policy Studies, 2014) with his brother Nima Sanandaji.

In February 2017, he self-published Massutmaning ("Mass Challenge"), about Swedish immigration and integration policy. The book reached the top slot of many best-seller lists.[14] The English translation was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.

His fifth book, "Tio tusen miljarder: Skuldkalaset och den förträngda baksmällan" ("Ten Thousand Billions: The Debt Party and the Repressed Hangover"), is about Swedish fiscal policy. It was crowd-funded on Kickstarter in November 2017.[15] It was published in 2018.

Sanandaji has also written several state reports on Swedish tax and entrepreneurship policy, including "Entrepreneurship conditions" for the "Experts Group on Public Finance" in the Swedish Ministry of Finance.[16][17] He is a regular contributor to the National Review,[18] and has authored articles in Swedish and American publications, including The American, Wall-Street Journal, Critical Review, The Independent Review and Axess magasin. Additionally, he has been profiled in Politico Europe,[6] and interviewed by Expressen,[3] Sveriges Radio,[19] NRK,[20] Dagbladet Information,[21] The Economist,[22] Al Jazeera,[23] and The New York Post.[24]

Bibliography

  • Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino (2004). Ägarbeskattningen och företagandet : om skatteteorin och den svenska policydiskussionen [Owner taxation and entrepreneurship – on tax theory and the Swedish policy debate] (in Swedish). SNS Press.
  • Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino (2012). Institutional Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  • Sanandaji, Nima; Sanandaji, Tino (2014). SuperEntrepreneurs – and how your country can get them. Centre for Policy Studies. ISBN 978-1-906996-79-6.
  • Sanandaji, Tino (2016). Massutmaning [Mass challenge] (in Swedish). Self-published.
  • Sanandaji, Tino (2018). Tio tusen miljarder: Skuldkalaset och den förträngda baksmällan [Ten Thousand Billions: The Debt Party and the Repressed Hangover] (in Swedish). Self-published.

References

  1. ^ Pethokoukis, James (27 November 2015). "IKEAmerica: Should the US really be more like Sweden? A Q&A with economist Tino Sanandaji". American Enterprise Institute. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. ^ Sörbring, Karin (17 February 2017). "Stor intervju med Tino Sanandaji om invandringen i Sverige". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 January 2018. I am a Kurd and I don't see myself as Swedish and if anyone would demand that I abandon my Kurdish identify I would leave Sweden
  3. ^ a b Sörbring, Karin (17 February 2017). "Stor intervju med Tino Sanandaji om invandringen i Sverige". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Tino Sanandaji – Resume" (PDF). Tino Sanandaji. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  5. ^ "People". www.hhs.se. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b "25 Tino Sanandaji THE COLD TRUTH-TELLER". Politico Europe. 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2018. On his blog[...] Tino Sanandaji mixes fierce criticism of government strategy with policy prescriptions and reasons to hope for the future.[...] And he's far more scathing about the far-right Sweden Democrats than he is about the government.
  7. ^ Radio, Sveriges (8 February 2017). "Tino Sanandajis nya bok väcker debatt – Studio Ett @ 3:30". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 21 January 2018. Sanandaji:"Invandring är inget enhetligt fenomen, det finns väldigt olika invandring. Det är nästan meningslöst att prata om fenomenet invandring. Invandring av en högutbildad indisk fysiker och någon lågutbildad som inte kan läsa och skriva ifrån Afrika, de är totalt olika. Det är som att fråga: Är det bra för företag att rekrytera? Frågan är: Vem rekryterar man? I Sveriges fall har invandringen varit fokuserad på flyktingar ifrån u-länder."
  8. ^ "Stor intervju med Tino Sanandaji: "SD var ett gäng skånsk trash med låg IQ"" (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  9. ^ Radio, Sveriges (8 February 2017). "Tino Sanandajis nya bok väcker debatt – Studio Ett". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  10. ^ Tino Sanandaji (22 February 2016). Tino Sanandaji: Facts on Immigration [English Subtitles] (Video Lecture). Channel Tino. Event occurs at 0:44. My research has never been about immigration, it's an issue you could say I've found myself addressing. Deliberately, I've never researched immigration to avoid having doubts cast on the research. Instead, I've referred to other people's research. However, economics is obviously not that specialized, the economics of immigration is a subcategory of general economics, labor markets economics, public finance, and so forth
  11. ^ "Moral Superpower: A book on immigration by Tino Sanandaji". Kickstarter. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  12. ^ "VERKSAMHETEN 2004" (PDF). SNS (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  13. ^ "InstAxess magasinitutional Entrepreneurship". www.e-elgar.com. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  14. ^ "Invandringspolitik på topplistor och att giftmörda utan att lämna spår" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  15. ^ Sanandaji, Tino (26 October 2017). "Tio tusen miljarder – lånekalas i folkhemmet". www.kickstarter.com (in Swedish). Kickstarter. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  16. ^ "Reports – Centre for Policy Studies". www.cps.org.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  17. ^ "2014:3 Företagandets förutsättningar – en ESO-rapport om den svenska ägarbeskattningen – ESO – Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi". ESO – Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  18. ^ "Tino Sanandaji". www.nationalreview.com/. National Review. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  19. ^ "Debatt om öppna gränser" [Debating open borders]. Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 24 January 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  20. ^ Anders Magnus (26 May 2015). "Beregninger: Syria-flyktninger koster 20 milliarder kroner over ti år" [Calculation: Syrian refugees cost 20 billion crowns over ten years]. www.nrk.no (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  21. ^ Mette-Line Thorup (1 June 2017). "Sveriges mest indvandrerkritiske økonom: Indvandring truer ikke finansieringen af velfærdsstaten" [Sweden's most immigration skeptic economist: Immigration will not finance the welfare]. www.information.dk (in Danish). Dagbladet Information. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  22. ^ Weheliye, Nasteho (18 May 2017). "Sweden is trying to turn people Swedish". The Economist. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  23. ^ Mucci, Alberto (25 March 2016). "Do Sweden's refugee policies work?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  24. ^ Lowry, Rich (21 February 2017). "Actually, Sweden is having big trouble with Mideast refugees". New York Post. Retrieved 15 January 2018.