Per Molander

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Per Molander (born October 19, 1950 ) is a Swedish policy advisor and analyst and author. It researches and publishes on distribution issues .

Life

Molander studied after graduating from high school at the Sorbonne (1968/69 French literary and cultural history) and mathematics and literary studies at the University of Lund with a bachelor's degree in 1972. In 1973 he obtained a licentiate degree in applied physics. He did his military service in 1973/74 as a translator and interpreter for Russian. In 1979 he received his doctorate in applied mathematics from Lund Technical University. Before that he was in 1977/78 with a research fellowship at the University of Groningen . 1980 to 1988 he was a systems analyst at the Swedish National Defense Research Institute. In 1988/89 he was chief analyst of a parliamentary working group on food supply (agricultural policy). In the 1990s he worked for the Swedish government as a consultant on reforms in welfare and budgetary policy , as well as environmental policy . He was an advisor to the World Bank , the IMF, the European Commission and other institutions. From 1997 to 2002 he was head of research at Studieförbundet Näringsliv och Samhälle (research association for business and society). From 2006 to 2009 he was Vice President of Transparency International in Sweden. In 2009, Per Molander founded the Swedish government's "Inspection for Social Insurance" (Inspections för socialförsäkringen) and was its general director until 2015.

He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2013 .

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Molander wrote several books on political issues for a wider audience in Sweden.

Inspired by the theory of the Nash equilibrium , which he came across during his studies, he dealt with the phenomenon of inequality in society. He sees this as a justification for the fact that often in societies "the strong become stronger, the weaker weaker, the rich richer, the poor poorer" (Susanne Mauthner-Weber).

Analytically and politically, Molander deals with specific questions of distributive justice, such as and why there is no absolute equality in any society? Why are income inequalities growing in most OECD countries ? How can more social equality be achieved?

Molander sees the simple, self-reinforcing effect after inequality produces ever greater inequalities as the main obstacle to just societies. Equal parties divide an available good in the vast majority of cases into equal parts; while in a constellation in which one party has less power, the weaker party goes out of the negotiation with less than half. According to Molander, this mechanism also applies in a market economy. He sees societies shaped by social democracy and, in his view, therefore more just, more stable forms of society.

Books

  • The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins and Solutions . 2016
    • The anatomy of inequality: where it comes from and how we can control it . Frankfurt: Westend-Verlag 2017. German by Jörg Scherzer. ISBN 9783864891847
  • Fiscal federalism in unitary states , ZEI Studies in European Economics and Law, Springer 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Per Molander's curriculum vitae on the ifau.se curriculum vitae ( memento of the original from October 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 22, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifau.se
  2. ↑ susanne.mauthner-weber: "In general, inequality is growing" . ( kurier.at [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Per Molander: "The Anatomy of Inequality" - Why equality is greatest in Scandinavia . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Molander, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish engineer, policy advisor and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1950