Sweden’s Globalisation Council have just published a report I have written entitled "Is Free Migration Compatible with a European-Style Welfare State?" Milton Friedman thought that it wasn’t. Conventional wisdom on both left and right concurs. I disagree. The abstract is as follows: This report examines the interaction between free migration and a European-style welfare state, [...]
Posted 05 May 2008 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
I was in Stockholm earlier this week speaking at a conference organised by Sweden's Globalisation Council, making the case for open borders in front of an audience including the country's immigration minister, the head of its trade-union federation and the deputy head of its employers federation. I have also written a paper for the Council [...]
Posted 20 Feb 2008 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
In Swedish. Read it here
Posted 17 Sep 2007 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
by Lena Jordebo. Listen to it here
Posted 07 Aug 2007 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
In Swedish, here
Posted 11 Jul 2007 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
My trip to Stockholm has attracted quite a lot of media attention and debate. Niclas Ericsson has very kindly emailed me the leader that he wrote for corren.se about it. I hope it’s positive, but I can’t know for sure as I unfortunately don’t understand Swedish.
Posted 24 May 2007 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
I’m just back from a fantastic trip to Stockholm, where I spoke about Immigrants at Timbro and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and got lots of media coverage. I’m back in Sweden next Friday, 1 June, to speak at the hoodsfred, a cultural festival in Kista outside Stockholm. My book is available in English from [...]
Posted 23 May 2007 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
Kristian Karlsson wrote an article about Immigrants in Svenska Dagbladet on 17 February. Read it here
Posted 08 Mar 2007 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
