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Born 17 May 1980 (age 36) ( 1980-05-17 ) Tehran, Iran Education MSc from Stockholm School of Economics. M.A in economics and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. Occupation Researcher in economy at the Stockholm School of Economics. Books SuperEntrepreneurs and How Your Country Can Get Them, Owner-Level Taxes and Business Activity Similar Nima Sanandaji, Magnus Henrekson, Alice Teodorescu, Thomas Gür, Stefan Fölster | ||
Tino Sanandaji (born 17 May 1980 in Tehran, Iran) is a Swedish economist and author of Kurdish Iranian origin. He arrived in Sweden in 1989 with his family, and studied at higher level in both Stockholm and Chicago. He lives and works in Stockholm.
Contents
He has become known in Sweden for his blog and criticism of Sweden's immigration and integration policy. In December 2014, Sanandaji started a fundraising with Kickstarter to write a book about Swedish immigration policy. Published in February 2017, Massutmaning reached the top slot of many bestseller lists and has been described as a "book phenomenon" by the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Career
He works as a researcher in economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has authored a number of scholarly articles, with a focus on entrepreneurship and taxation.
Author
Sanandaji has authored three books. Owner taxation and entrepreneurship - on tax theory and the Swedish policy debate (SNS Press, 2004) and Institutional Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2012), both coauthored with Magnus Henrekson.
He coauthored the book SuperEntrepreneurs - and how your country can get them (the Centre for Policy Studies, 2014) with his brother Nima Sanandaji. Sanandaji has written several state reports on Swedish tax and entrepreneurship policy, including "Entrepreneurship conditions" for the Experts Group on Public Finance in the Swedish finance ministry. Sanandaji is a regular contributor to National Review and has in addition authored a number of articles in Swedish and American publications, including The American, Wall-Street Journal, Critical Review, The Independent Review and Axess.