From Social State to Minimal State (Danish: Fra socialstat til minimalstat) is a book written by Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Published in 1993, it expounded the future Danish Prime Minister's classical liberal worldview. He argued that Denmark should transition from a welfare state into a low-tax economy, and delivered advice and reflections on how it should be done.Rasmussen was a backbencher, and the book formed a part of his strident criticism of the post-war welfare state.