Count Carl Peter Bastiat Hamilton (born 1 January 1946 in

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) is a

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and

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. 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

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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

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. Hamilton holds a

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from

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in 1974. From 1992 to 1997 he served as a

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in economics at the

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. During the mid '90s he worked as

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. He has been a part-time professor in

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at the

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since 1999.

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Carl B. Hamilton
at the Liberal People's Party
Carl B. Hamilton
at the

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