Per Anders Åslund (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈândɛʂˈoːslɵnd];[surname tone?] born 17 February 1952) is aSwedisheconomist and former Senior Fellow at theAtlantic Council. He is also a chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).
From 1989 to 1994, Åslund worked as a professor of International Economics at theStockholm School of Economics; and in 1989 he became the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics.
On 22 April 1990 Åslund published a controversial article onDagens Nyheter, drawing parallels between the collapsing communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the social democratic policies in Sweden.[4] He argued that Sweden had too large a public sector; supported communist dictatorships, such asCuba, in the Third World; and had excessive state intervention in all areas of life. The rulingSwedish Social Democratic Party opposed the views of Åslund in dozens of articles. In June 1990, Social Democratic Prime MinisterIngvar Carlsson voiced public disagreement with Åslund in theRiksdag.[5][6] However, opposition leaderCarl Bildt (Moderate Party) defended Åslund.[6][7]
From November 1991 to January 1994, Åslund worked withJeffrey Sachs and David Lipton as a senior advisor to the Russian reform government under PresidentBoris Yeltsin and Acting Prime MinisterYegor Gaidar.[8] He worked also with Deputy Prime MinistersAnatoly Chubais andBoris Fedorov. Åslund summarized his views in his bookHow Russia Became a Market Economy.[9]
After his experiences in Russia, Åslund worked as an economic advisor to PresidentLeonid Kuchma of Ukraine from 1994 to 1997, and from 1998 to 2004, to PresidentAskar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan. Åslund has also worked substantially with economic policy in theBaltic countries, first as a member of the International Baltic Economic Commission from 1991 to 1993,[10] and later as an informal advisor to Latvian Prime MinisterValdis Dombrovskis from 2009.[11] (Dombrovskis was prime minister until 2014.)
In 2016, Åslund was appointed to the supervisory board of Ukraine's 23rd largest bank, Kredyt Dnipro, owned by Ukrainian oligarchViktor Pinchuk.[12][13]
From July 2004-January 2005, Åslund co-chaired a Blue Ribbon Commission on a Reform Program for the Next Ukrainian President, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program.[14] From September 2009-February 2010, he co-chaired an Independent Commission of International Experts on Economic Reform for the Ukrainian Government, sponsored by the Swedish and Dutch governments.[15] From May 2014-April 2016, Åslund worked as an Advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Economy.
From January 2016-August 2020, Åslund was a non-executive director of Bank Credyt Dnipro, Ukraine,[16] and from June 2018-September 2020, he was a non-executive director ofUkrzaliznytsia (the Ukrainian state railways), Ukraine. He resigned in September 2020, complaining that "I feel neither wanted by the shareholder nor offered viable working conditions, while the legal liability is mine."[17]
Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc, Cambridge University Press, 2008
The Challenges of Globalization: Imbalances and Growth, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008
How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009
(withAndrew Kuchins)The Russia Balance Sheet, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009
Russia After the Global Economic Crisis, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2010
The Last Shall Be the First: East European Financial Crisis, 2008–10, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2010
(withValdis Dombrovskis)How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011
(with Gary Clyde Hufbauer)The United States Should Establish Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2012
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2013
^Anders Åslund, Post-Communist Economic Revolutions: How Big a Bang? The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, and Westview, 1992, pp. 106
Private Enterprise in Eastern Europe. The Non-Agricultural Private Sector in Poland and the GDR, 1945–83 Macmillan, London, 1985, 294 pp.
Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform, Pinter, London, and Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1989, 219 pp. 2nd ed., Pinter, London, and Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1991, 262 pp.
Post-Communist Economic Revolutions: How Big a Bang? The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, and Westview, 1992, 106 pp.
Getting It Wrong: Regional Cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., 1999., with Martha Brill Olcott and Sherman W. Garnett,
Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc, 2001,ISBN978-0-521-80525-4
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Sotsialnaya politika v period perekhoda k rynku: problemy i resheniya (Social Policy in the Transition to a Market Economy: Problems and Solutions), 1996 by Anders Åslund and Mikhail Dmitriev,ISBN978-0-87003-121-2
Russia After Communism, 1999 by Anders Åslund and Martha Brill Olcott,ISBN978-0-87003-151-9
Economic Reform in Ukraine: The Unfinished Agenda, 2000 by Anders Åslund and Georges de Ménil,ISBN978-0-76560-624-2
Ocherki o mirovoi ekonomike. Vydayushchiesya ekonomisty mira v Moskovskom Tsentre Carnegie. (Series of Lectures on Economics: Leading World Experts at the Carnegie Moscow Center), 2005 by Anders Åslund and Tatyana Maleva
Russia Versus the United States and Europe – or "Strategic Triangle"?, 2005 by Anders Åslund andHannes Adomeit
