As of 2017, Sanandaji works as a researcher at the Institute for Economic and Business History Research at the Stockholm School of Economics.[5] He has authored a number of scholarly articles on economics, with a focus on entrepreneurship and taxation. Sanandaji also has a blog where he publishes articles on government policy. He is especially critical of the far-right Sweden Democrats party.[6]
Sanandaji is a vocal critic of Sweden's policy on immigration of low-educated migrants from developing countries,[7] but also of supporters of the anti-immigration party Sweden Democrats.[8] He approaches the issue from an internal perspective, as both an immigrant himself and a former resident of various areas of social deprivation.[9] According to Sanandaji, he has not conducted basic research on immigration but instead refers to research and statistics collected by other researchers.[10] As of 2014[update], he describes his profession as economic research and writing on immigration as an unpaid hobby.[11]
Sanandaji has authored five books. His first two books were coauthored with Magnus Henrekson: Owner taxation and entrepreneurship – on tax theory and the Swedish policy debate (SNS Press, 2004) and Institutional Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2012).[12][13] He then coauthored SuperEntrepreneurs – and how your country can get them (the Centre for Policy Studies, 2014) with his brother Nima Sanandaji.
In February 2017, he self-published Massutmaning ("Mass Challenge"), about Swedish immigration and integration policy. The book reached the top slot of many best-seller lists.[14] The English translation was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.
His fifth book,『Tio tusen miljarder: Skuldkalaset och den förträngda baksmällan』("Ten Thousand Billions: The Debt Party and the Repressed Hangover"), is about Swedish fiscal policy. It was crowd-funded on Kickstarter in November 2017.[15] It was published in 2018.
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino (2004). Ägarbeskattningen och företagandet : om skatteteorin och den svenska policydiskussionen [Owner taxation and entrepreneurship – on tax theory and the Swedish policy debate] (in Swedish). SNS Press.
Sanandaji, Tino (2018). Tio tusen miljarder: Skuldkalaset och den förträngda baksmällan [Ten Thousand Billions: The Debt Party and the Repressed Hangover] (in Swedish). Self-published.
^ ab"25 Tino Sanandaji THE COLD TRUTH-TELLER". Politico Europe. 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2018. On his blog[...] Tino Sanandaji mixes fierce criticism of government strategy with policy prescriptions and reasons to hope for the future.[...] And he's far more scathing about the far-right Sweden Democrats than he is about the government.
^Radio, Sveriges (8 February 2017). "Tino Sanandajis nya bok väcker debatt – Studio Ett @ 3:30". Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 21 January 2018. Sanandaji:"Invandring är inget enhetligt fenomen, det finns väldigt olika invandring. Det är nästan meningslöst att prata om fenomenet invandring. Invandring av en högutbildad indisk fysiker och någon lågutbildad som inte kan läsa och skriva ifrån Afrika, de är totalt olika. Det är som att fråga: Är det bra för företag att rekrytera? Frågan är: Vem rekryterar man? I Sveriges fall har invandringen varit fokuserad på flyktingar ifrån u-länder."
^Tino Sanandaji (22 February 2016). Tino Sanandaji: Facts on Immigration [English Subtitles](Video Lecture). Channel Tino. Event occurs at 0:44. My research has never been about immigration, it's an issue you could say I've found myself addressing. Deliberately, I've never researched immigration to avoid having doubts cast on the research. Instead, I've referred to other people's research. However, economics is obviously not that specialized, the economics of immigration is a subcategory of general economics, labor markets economics, public finance, and so forth
