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Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician

Count Carl Peter Bastiat Hamilton (born 1 January 1946 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish count, economist and politician.

He has been a Member of Parliament for the Liberal People's Party from 1997 to 1998, and again since 2002. He sits in the parliament's Committee on the Labour Market and is vice-chair of the Committee on EU Affairs. He is also a member of the party board of the Liberal People's Party.

From 1993 to 1994 he served as an Undersecretary of State at the Swedish Ministry of Finance.

Hamilton holds a doctorate in economics from London in 1974. From 1992 to 1997 he served as a professor in economics at the Stockholm University. During the mid '90s he worked as chief economist at Handelsbanken. He has been a part-time professor in international economics at the Stockholm School of Economics since 1999.