23/05/2006 2:54:54 pm
Interview in Die Welt: "Hohe Steuern hemmen auf Dauer das Wachstum". The German daily Die Welt today publishes a major interview with me. To a large extent, it compares the economic development of Germany and Sweden and the need for reform. My message is that other countries could learn from low-tax Sweden before 1970 or some of the market-oriented reforms in the 1990s. But to the extent that Sweden has a very big state with high taxes we have had big problems and copying that should be avoided.



Read the entire interview here (in German) - >