Tino Sanandaji

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 entitled 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 third world 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]

Sanandaji has authored four 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 the book Massutmaning ("Mass Challenge") on Swedish immigration and integration policy. The book reached the top slot of many best-seller lists.[14] In November 2017 his upcoming book on Swedish fiscal policy met its funding goal on Kickstarter.[15]

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]

• 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 - lånekalas i folkhemmet [10 thousand billions - A debt party in folkhemmet] (in Swedish). Self-published.

• Sanandaji's Web site