News at the Department of Economic History

Boken ges ut av Nordic Academic Press med Nikolas Glover (ekonomisk historia, UU), Jenny Andersson (ide- och lärdomshistoria, UU), Orsi Husz (ide- och lärdomshistoria, UU) och David Larsson Heidenblad (historia, LU) som redaktörer.

The article is written by Arvand Mirsafian, PhD student at the Dept. of Economic History and published in the International Review of Social History, October 2023.

Måns Jansson och Göran Ulväng från Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen medverkar i antologin Shopping i Stockholm: Sociala praktiker på gatunivå, 1700-1850 där 11 författare undersöker shopping som upplevelse och praktik i det tidigmoderna Stockholm.

The article is written by Mattias Qviström (Dept.of Urban and Rural Development, SLU), Daniel Normark (Dept of Economic History, Uppsala University) and Nik Luka (The School of Architecture, McGill University). The article is published in Mobility (Taylor & Francis Online). 

The article is written by Martin Emanuel (Dept. of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH) and Daniel Normark (STS Uppsala, Dept of Economic History, Uppsala University ). The article is published in The Journal of Transport History (Sage Journals).

Congratulations to our Researchers who has received funding during spring 2023 from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse and Tore Browaldhs stiftelse

Anders Ögren vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen har skrivit en understreckare i Svenska Dagbladet, publicerad 2023-05-30.

The article is written by Postdoc Séan Kenny at the Department of Economic History, LU, Professor Anders Ögren at the Department of Economic History, UU and Liang Zhao, PhD student at the Department of Economic History, LU. The article is published in the European Review of Economic History.

The anthology is edited by Nikolas Glover (economic history, UU) and David M. Higgins (Newcastle University) and is published by Rutledge.

Pär Malmberg is Chair of the Swedish Government’s Inquiry on Enhanced Security of Supply of Goods and Services, Lieutenant Colonel at the Swedish Armed Forces Defence Staff, and a PhD Student at the Stockholm School of Economics. Jan Ottosson is Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden. Martin Eriksson is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Unit of Economic History, Umeå University, Sweden. Olle Jansson is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden. Ottosson (PI), Eriksson, and Jansson are collaborators on the research project “A mutual commitment? The state, the K-companies and the Swedish economic defense 1962–2002”, funded with a grant from the Swedish Research Council.

Maths Isacson, professor och Arvand Mirsafian, doktorand har skrivit ett kapitel som ingår i antologin "1930-talet i Norden: Folkhemsbygge och kamp mot fascismens framväxt" utgiven av Arbetarrörelsens Kulturhistoriska Sällskap , 2022.

Researcher Mikael Wendschlag has written a chapter in the book "Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance" / [ed] Korinna Schönhärl, Gisela Hürlimann, Dorothea Rohde, New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2022, p. 240-256

Artiklen är skriven av Elisabeth Lindberg, doktorand vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, publicerad i Dagens Nyheter.

Håkan Lindgren, professor emeritus vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, Centrum för företagandets historia får Näringslivshistoriska priset 2022. 

Congratulations to Jakob Molinder who has received funding during autumng 2022 from the Swedish Research Council.

Slutreplik från professor Anders Ögren vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen till artiklen ”Olämplig registrering av individers åsikter” publicerad i Svenska Dagbladet.

Börsen har inte bottnat och tiden att köpa värdepapper till reapris har inte kommit. Det är budskapet från sparexperten Andra Farhad och historikern Lars Magnusson. Men trots dystra utsikter finns sätt att trygga besparingarna mot så väl börsfall som inflation.

Debattartiklen är skriven av professor Anders Ögren vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, publicerad i Svenska Dagbladet.

Congratulations to Olle Jansson who has been promoted to Associate Professors in Economic History.

Maths Isacson, seniorprofessor vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen har skrivit boken "Vad gör en fackförening? Den dagliga kampen för jobben 1975-2000 utifrån en klubbordförandes dagböcker", utgiven av Arkiv förlag.

Artiklen är skriven av Anders Ögren vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, tillsammans med Hans-Michael Trautwein vid The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Artikeln är publicerad i Economic History Yearbook.

The article is written by Åsa Malmström Rognes at the Department of Economic History and Catherine R Schenk at University of Oxford, published on Economic History Review.

he article is written by Anders Ögren at the Department of Economic History, published on Cambridge University Press.

Congratulations to Valbona Muzaka, Lars Karlsson and Jakob Molinder who has been promoted to Associate Professors in Economic History.

The article is written by Elisabeth Lindberg at the Department of Economic History, published in Scandinavian Economic History Review.

Artiklen är skriven av Cecilia Kahn vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, publicerad i Ekonomisk debatt.

Mikael Wendschlag "Rövare och bankirer"

Maths Isacsson "Lönen är viktig, tekniken får man leva med - Teknisk förnyelse vid Hedemora verkstäder under industriomvandlingen 1980–2000"

The article is written by Anders Ögren and Diego Castañeda Garza at the Department of Economic History, published in the Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica

The Department of Economic History at Uppsala University (Sweden) opens a three-year post doc Browaldh stipend (with a possible extension of three years) on the theme of International Monetary Systems: Past, Present and Future.

The article is written by Anders Ögren at the Department of Economic History, published in Svenska Dagbladet

The article is written by Daniel Normark at the Department of Economic History, published in The Journal of Transport History via sage Journals.

Congratulations to our Researchers who has received funding during spring 2022 from Handelsbanken/Wallander.

The article is written ny Tony Kenttä,Kristina Lilja och Dan Bäcklund at the Department of Economic History, published in the journal The History of the Family via Taylor & Francis Online.

Elisabeth Lindberg medverkar i antologin ”Bortom systemskiftet” tillsammans med en stor grupp forskare från svenska universitet. 

Diego Castaneda Garza has written the "Life on the edge: Elites, wealth and inequality in Sonora 1871-1910" published in Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History by Cambridge University Press.

Mikael Wendschlag has toghether with Eiji Hotori and Thibaud Giddey published the book "Formalization of banking supervision - 19th and 20th century". Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Congratulations to our Researchers who has received funding during autumn 2021.

Mats Larsson and Kristina Lilja has written the chapter "To Remember or Forget? Financial Crises and Regulatory Regimes in Sweden" in the recently publoshed book "Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises", Cassis, Y. & Schenk, C. R. (eds.), Oxford University Press.

Elin Åström Rudberg, forskare vid Ekonomisk-historiska inst, UU har skrivit artikeln "Så blev svenskarna sålda på att starta eget", publicerad i SvD 2021-10-20.

Viktor Persarvet's thesis "Tariffs, Trade, and Economic Growth in Sweden 1858–1913" was awarded as the best PhD thesis by the The Swedish Historical Association.

Mats Morell (Dept of Economic History) and Martin Söderhäll (post-doc in economic history at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research) were awarded the Annual Heckscher Prize for best article 2019 in the Scandinavian Economic History Review by the The Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History for the article "Smallholders’ and large estates’ reaction to changed market conditions 1860-1910" 

Anders Ögren, professor at the Dept. of Economic History has toghether with Jonas Ljungberg from Lund Universitet written the article "Discipline or international balance: the choice of monetary systems in Europe”.

Mats Larsson, Kristina Lilja and Tom Petersson has published the book "Risk Management in Early Banking. An International Perspective of Swedish Savings Banks, 1820–1910" Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Ylva Hasselberg har publicerat första delen av en biografi över Eli Heckscher: Vetenskaps karaktär Eli F. Heckscher. Del 1: Oberoende liv 1879—1924, på Gidlunds förlag.

Anders Ögren has toghether with Seán Kenny from the University of Lunds written the article "Unlimiting Unlimited Liability: Legal Equality for Swedish Banks with Alternative Shareholder Liability Regimes, 1897–1903", published in Business History Review.

Jan Ottosson has coauthored the article "The social background of elite executives: the Swedish case", publicerad på Taylor & Francis Online.