Åslund, Anders

Autor: Åslund, Anders
Rok: 1952-

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Švédský ekonom, vysokoškolský učitel, specialista na ekonomické transformace východní Evropy, autor publikací z oboru.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Per Anders Åslund (Swedish pronunciation: [andəʂ oːslʉnd]) (born 1952) is a Swedish economist and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is also a Chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).His work focuses on economic transition from centrally planned to market economies. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments of Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine and from 2003 was director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Åslund was an advocate of early, comprehensive, and radical economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe. He worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2006-15. In 2013, David Frum wrote that “Anders Aslund at the Peterson Institute is one of the world’s leading experts on the collapse of the planned Soviet economy.” Åslund is knownREDIRECT Template:To whom? for making bold predictions that initially arouse controversy but a few years later become conventional wisdom to be wrong. In his book Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform (Cornell University Press, 1989), Åslund suggested that the most probable scenario for the Soviet Union was a “radicalized economic reform with far-reaching democratization”.In 1989, he predicted the demise of one communist regime after the other.Anders Aslund lives permanently in Washington, DC, with his wife Anna and their two children.