Nils Karlson
Professor, Founder and former CEO
EmployeesNils Karlson is an economist and political scientist. He is the founder of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm and has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, Hoover Institution, and a Professor in Political Science at Linköping University. His research is focused on institutional change and the interaction between politics, markets, and civil society.
He has published over 30 books and numerous academic papers. His latest book in English is Reviving Classical Liberalism against Populism(Palgrave MacMillan 2024). Other books in English include Statecraft and Liberal Reform in Advanced Democracies (Palgrave MacMillan 2018), The State of State. An Inquiry Concerning the Role of Invisible Hands in Politics and Civil Society (Almquist & Wiksell International 1993, also published by Transaction Press 2002, and Routledge 2017), and Bureaucrats or Markets in Innovation Policy? (Ratio/Publit 2019) with Sandström, C and Wennberg, K.).
He is a trustee of the board of the Mont Pelerin Society and a member of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.