Daniel Waldenström
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| Born | March 27, 1974 Järfälla parish |
| Alma mater | Lund University |
| Occupation | Professor |
Daniel Anders Måns Waldenström, born March 27, 1974 in Järfälla parish in Stockholm County, is a Swedish economist, economic historian, and professor.
Waldenström completed his doctorate in economics at Stockholm School of Economics in 2003 and in economic history at Lund University in 2009. As a researcher and teacher, he has worked at the University of California in Los Angeles, USA, the Stockholm School of Economics, Uppsala University, and the Paris School of Economics. He is professor of economics and program manager for the research program "Taxes and society" at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm. He does research on economic inequality, taxes, fiscal policy and economic history.
Waldenström has written several scientific articles, government-commissioned reports and popular science texts. His first book, Sick of Inequality? An Introduction to the Relationship between Inequality and Health, written with Andreas Bergh and Therese Nilsson, Edward Elgar 2016, discusses the links between income inequality and individual health.
His new book, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West, will be published in 2024.
Waldenström has been advisor to the government and several government agencies in Sweden regarding questions of fiscal policy, taxation and inequality. He was appointed member of the Special Council for Corona Policies by minister for finance Magdalena Andersson (Social Democratic Party), 2020-2021. He is member of the Economic Council of the minister of finance (Mikael Damberg, Social Democratic Party, 2021-2022, Elisabeth Svantesson, Moderate Party, 2022-).
Waldenström grew up in an academic family in Sollentuna. He is the grandson of Gillis Waldenström, grandson of Bengt Collste and nephew of Göran Collste.
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