摘要：In 1973, economist Esa Österberg was employed by the Finnish Social Research Institute for Alcohol Studies. He was recruited to collect data for national and international purposes on various indicators related to alcohol policy. Esa's career spanned over four and a half decades. Only he and Robin Room have contributed to the entire chain of publications which started with Kettil Bruun et al. (Alcohol control policies in public health perspective, 1975) and was expanded, deepened and updated by Griffith Edwards et al. (Alcohol policy and the public good, 1994) and Thomas Babor et al. (Alcohol: No ordinary commodity, 1st edition 2004, 2nd edition 2010, 3rd edition 2021).
