The Ratio Institute is an independent Swedish research institute focusing on the conditions for enterprise, entrepreneurship and market economy and political change. The institute's infrastructure is financed by the Swedish Free Enterprise Foundation, but various research projects have financiers like the Wallenberg Foundation and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise is a major interest organisation for business and industry in Sweden. It has 48 member associations representing close to 55.000 member companies with more than 1.5 million employees....

. Ratio is Latin for reason.

Ratio was established as a publishing house within think-tank Timbro (a subsidiary of the Swedish Free Enterprise Foundation) in 1978. The Ratio thinktank was founded in 2002, and formed as a non-profit organisation in 2004.

Ratio's Scientific Advisory Board includes James M. Buchanan

James M. Buchanan

James McGill Buchanan, Jr. is an American economist known for his work on public choice theory, for which he received the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' self-interest and non-economic forces affect government economic policy...

 and Daniel B. Klein

Daniel B. Klein

Daniel B. Klein is a professor of economics at George Mason University and an Associate Fellow of the Swedish Ratio Institute. Much of his research examines public policy questions, libertarian political philosophy, and the sociology of academia...

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