Assar Lindbeck was born in 1930. He is currently Professor of International Economics at the Institute of International Economic Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden. His publications include: A Study of Monetary Analysis (1963), Swedish Economic Policy (1975), The Insider-Outsider Theory of Employment and Unemployment (with Dennis J. Snower) (1988), Unemployment and Macroeconomics (1993), The Swedish Experiment (1997), as well as numerous articles in different areas of economic theory. He was chairman of the Prize Committee for the The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1980-1994. He also served as chairman of the Government-appointed Economics Commission on the Swedish Economy (the "Lindbeck Commission") in 1992.