Trade and Industry Minister Leif Pagrotsky on the flexible strength of the Swedish Model
瑞典贸易与工业部长莱夫·帕格罗茨基阐述其观点：高水平社会保障并非僵化，而是瑞典经济活力、创新和竞争力的源泉，并列举低通胀、高就业、高生产率等证据。
Executive Overview As Sweden's Minister of Trade and Industry-Leif Pagrotsky has in his portfolio, among other authorities and agencies, the Swedish Industrial Development Fund, the Invest in Sweden Agency, the Swedish Business Development Agency, and other organizations that implement policy according to government goals for economic, cultural, and social development. Mr. Pagrotsky's views on government's role in encouraging economic, social, and cultural development are not uncontroversial. He suggests that the perception of a “welfare state as rigid and complacent” does not fit the Swedish model. He argues that respectable levels of social security are a source of vitality in Sweden. The effects of achieving it ripple though all parts of Swedish economic, political, and cultural life—from technology, to science, to business, to music, to cuisine—making Sweden, and its only 9 million residents, a unique competitive and productive force in the global arena. He points to Sweden's remarkable record of low inflation, high employment, high productivity growth, impressive innovation rates, vibrant entrepreneurship, and history of producing competitive world-class companies as evidence of the fruits of achieving a form of social security that encourages risk-taking, flexibility, and assertive cooperation, not rigidity and complacency. Mr. Pagrotsky directs agencies and authorities to promote aggressive governmental actions that foster fundamental flexibility for the Swedish workforce, corporations, and governmental agencies. Leif Pagrotsky holds both an MBA and an MSc in political science from Gothenberg University. He has held positions in the OECD and the Swedish Central Bank, was an undersecretary for the Swedish Ministry of Finance, member of the board of the European Investment Bank, board member of Sweden's Wine & Spirits Corporation, and was Sweden's Minister of Trade and Finance at the time of this interview, just two days before his new appointment.