# Einar Du Rietz: The Rise and Decline of the Swedish Welfare State **URL:** **By** Einar Du Rietz **Published:** August 24, 1991 --- Einar Du Rietz is one of a small minority of libertarian scholars and activists in Sweden. He currently writes for Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, a non-profit organization that promotes free market solutions to environmental issues. In this video from a 1991 meeting of the International Society for Individual Liberty, Du Rietz talks about the tremendous success a short book he helped write a year earlier was enjoying. _The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Welfare State_ was published in 1990 to widespread acceptance in the European community. The book pieces together Sweden's history in the post-World War era: Sweden was not not heavily involved in either war, giving it an economic advantage that the book claims was squandered by experimenting with a mixed economy.