:Tino Sanandaji

Sanandaji arrived in Sweden in 1989 with his family as a 9-year-old and grew up in Norrköping and Ale Municipality.{{cite news |last=Sörbring |first=Karin |date=17 February 2017 |title=Stor intervju med Tino Sanandaji om invandringen i Sverige|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/tino-sanandaji-sd-var-ett-gang-skansk-trash-med-lag-iq/ |work=Expressen |access-date=2018-01-04|language=sv}} 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 titled Essays in Entrepreneurship Policy.{{cite web|title=Tino Sanandaji – Resume|url=http://tino.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CV.pdf|publisher=Tino Sanandaji|accessdate=15 January 2018}}

As of 2017, Sanandaji works as a researcher at the Institute for Economic and Business History Research at the Stockholm School of Economics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hhs.se/en/research/institutes/ehff/people/|title=People|website=www.hhs.se|access-date=2017-03-07}} 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.{{cite news|title=25 Tino Sanandaji THE COLD TRUTH-TELLER|url=https://www.politico.eu/list/politico-28-2018-ranking/tino-sanandaji/|work=Politico Europe|date=2017|access-date=6 January 2018|quote=On his blog[...] Tino Sanandaji mixes fierce criticism of government strategy with policy prescriptions and reasons to hope for the future.[...] And he's far more scathing about the far-right Sweden Democrats than he is about the government.}}

Sanandaji is a vocal critic of Sweden's policy on immigration of low-educated migrants from developing countries,{{Cite news|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&artikel=6626217|title=Tino Sanandajis nya bok väcker debatt – Studio Ett @ 3:30|last=Radio|first=Sveriges|newspaper=Sveriges Radio |date=8 February 2017 |access-date=21 January 2018|quote=Sanandaji:"Invandring är inget enhetligt fenomen, det finns väldigt olika invandring. Det är nästan meningslöst att prata om fenomenet invandring. Invandring av en högutbildad indisk fysiker och någon lågutbildad som inte kan läsa och skriva ifrån Afrika, de är totalt olika. Det är som att fråga: Är det bra för företag att rekrytera? Frågan är: Vem rekryterar man? I Sveriges fall har invandringen varit fokuserad på flyktingar ifrån u-länder."}} but also of supporters of the anti-immigration party Sweden Democrats.{{Cite news|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/tino-sanandaji-sd-var-ett-gang-skansk-trash-med-lag-iq/|title=Stor intervju med Tino Sanandaji: "SD var ett gäng skånsk trash med låg IQ"|access-date=2018-07-24|language=sv-SE}} He approaches the issue from an internal perspective, as both an immigrant himself and a former resident of various areas of social deprivation.{{Cite news|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&artikel=6626217|title=Tino Sanandajis nya bok väcker debatt – Studio Ett|last=Radio|first=Sveriges|newspaper=Sveriges Radio |date=8 February 2017 |access-date=21 January 2018}} According to Sanandaji, he has not conducted basic research on immigration but instead refers to research and statistics collected by other researchers.{{cite AV media|people=Tino Sanandaji|date=22 February 2016|title=Tino Sanandaji: Facts on Immigration [English Subtitles]|format=Video Lecture |time=0:44 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMt8zkSP9xE|publisher=Channel Tino|quote=My research has never been about immigration, it's an issue you could say I've found myself addressing. Deliberately, I've never researched immigration to avoid having doubts cast on the research. Instead, I've referred to other people's research. However, economics is obviously not that specialized, the economics of immigration is a subcategory of general economics, labor markets economics, public finance, and so forth}} {{As of|2014}}, he describes his profession as economic research and writing on immigration as an unpaid hobby.{{cite web|title=Moral Superpower: A book on immigration by Tino Sanandaji|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2079803541/moral-superpower-a-book-on-immigration-by-tino-san|publisher=Kickstarter|accessdate=6 January 2018}}

Sanandaji has authored five 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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.sns.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sns_vb_2004.pdf|title=VERKSAMHETEN 2004|website=SNS|language=sv-SE|access-date=2018-01-04}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/institutional-entrepreneurship?___website=uk_warehouse|title=InstAxess magasinitutional Entrepreneurship|website=www.e-elgar.com|access-date=2017-03-07}} 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 Massutmaning ("Mass Challenge"), about Swedish immigration and integration policy. The book reached the top slot of many best-seller lists.{{cite news|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/853651?programid=4058|title=Invandringspolitik på topplistor och att giftmörda utan att lämna spår|date=23 February 2017|publisher=Sveriges Radio|language=sv|accessdate=7 March 2017}} The English translation was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.

His fifth book, "Tio tusen miljarder: Skuldkalaset och den förträngda baksmällan" ("Ten Thousand Billions: The Debt Party and the Repressed Hangover"), is about Swedish fiscal policy. It was crowd-funded on Kickstarter in November 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2079803541/tio-tusen-miljarder-lanekalas-i-folkhemmet/description|title=Tio tusen miljarder – lånekalas i folkhemmet|last=Sanandaji|first=Tino|date=26 October 2017|website=www.kickstarter.com|publisher=Kickstarter|access-date=2018-01-04|language=sv}} It was published in 2018.

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cps.org.uk/publications/reports/superentrepreneurs-and-how-your-country-can-get-them/|title=Reports – Centre for Policy Studies|website=www.cps.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-03-07}}{{Cite news|url=http://eso.expertgrupp.se/rapporter/skatter-och-entreprenorer/|title=2014:3 Företagandets förutsättningar – en ESO-rapport om den svenska ägarbeskattningen – ESO – Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi|work=ESO – Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi|access-date=2017-03-07|language=sv-SE}} He is a regular contributor to the National Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/author/tino-sanandaji |title=Tino Sanandaji |author= |website=www.nationalreview.com/ |publisher=National Review |access-date=2018-01-04 }} 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, and interviewed by Expressen, Sveriges Radio,{{cite news |url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&artikel=5420579 |title=Debatt om öppna gränser |language=sv |trans-title=Debating open borders|date=24 January 2013 |newspaper=Sveriges Radio|access-date=2018-01-15}} NRK,{{cite web |url=https://www.nrk.no/norge/beregninger_-syria-flyktninger-koster-20-milliarder-kroner-over-ti-ar-1.12379363 |title=Beregninger: Syria-flyktninger koster 20 milliarder kroner over ti år |language=no |trans-title=Calculation: Syrian refugees cost 20 billion crowns over ten years|author=Anders Magnus |date= 26 May 2015 |website=www.nrk.no |publisher=NRK|access-date=2018-01-15}} Dagbladet Information,{{cite web |url=https://www.information.dk/udland/2017/06/sveriges-mest-indvandrerkritiske-oekonom-indvandring-truer-finansieringen-velfaerdsstaten |title=Sveriges mest indvandrerkritiske økonom: Indvandring truer ikke finansieringen af velfærdsstaten |language=da |trans-title=Sweden's most immigration skeptic economist: Immigration will not finance the welfare|author=Mette-Line Thorup|date= 1 June 2017 |website=www.information.dk |publisher=Dagbladet Information|access-date=2018-01-15}} The Economist,{{cite news |last=Weheliye |first=Nasteho |date=18 May 2017 |title=Sweden is trying to turn people Swedish |url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21722167-worlds-greatest-welcomers-refugees-must-work-out-how-assimilate-them-sweden-trying |newspaper= The Economist|access-date=2018-01-15}} Al Jazeera,{{cite news |last=Mucci |first=Alberto |date=25 March 2016 |title=Do Sweden's refugee policies work? |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/02/sweden-refugee-policies-work-160229153658044.html |work= Al Jazeera|access-date=2018-01-15}} and The New York Post.{{cite news |last=Lowry |first=Rich |date=21 February 2017 |title=Actually, Sweden is having big trouble with Mideast refugees |url=https://nypost.com/2017/02/21/actually-sweden-is-having-big-trouble-with-mideast-refugees/ |work= New York Post|access-date=2018-01-15}}

• {{cite book |last1=Henrekson|first1=Magnus |author-link1=Magnus Henrekson|last2=Sanandaji |first2=Tino |date=2004 |title=Ägarbeskattningen och företagandet : om skatteteorin och den svenska policydiskussionen |trans-title=Owner taxation and entrepreneurship – on tax theory and the Swedish policy debate |language=sv-SE |publisher=SNS Press }}
• {{cite book |last1=Henrekson|first1=Magnus |author-link1=Magnus Henrekson|last2=Sanandaji |first2=Tino |date=2012 |title=Institutional Entrepreneurship |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. }}
• {{cite book |last1=Sanandaji|first1=Nima |author-link1=Nima Sanandaji|last2=Sanandaji |first2=Tino |date=2014 |title=SuperEntrepreneurs – and how your country can get them |url=http://www.cps.org.uk/publications/superentrepreneurs-and-how-your-country-can-get-them/ |publisher=Centre for Policy Studies |isbn= 978-1-906996-79-6}}
• {{cite book |last=Sanandaji |first=Tino |date=2016 |title=Massutmaning |trans-title=Mass challenge |language= SV-SE|publisher=Self-published |title-link=Massutmaning }}
• {{cite book |last=Sanandaji |first=Tino |date=2018 |title=Tio tusen miljarder: Skuldkalaset och den förträngda baksmällan |trans-title=Ten Thousand Billions: The Debt Party and the Repressed Hangover |language=SV-SE |publisher=Self-published }}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20151028231859/http://research.tino.us/ Sanandaji's Web site]

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