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Orsi Husz has recently published an open access article in the journal Contemporary European History: ”The Birth of the Finance Consumer: Feminists, Bankers and the Re-Gendering of Finance in Mid-Twentieth-Century Sweden”. It highlights the intricate role gender could play in the financialization of everyday life and and uncovers a longer prehistory behind neoliberalization and the…

Julian Lamberty and Jeppe Nevers have recently published a research article in Scandinavian Journal of History entitled ”The Voice of Business in Denmark’s Neoliberal Turn”. The article discusses the rhetoric and role of organized business in Denmark’s neoliberal turn, focusing especially on the Confederation of Danish Industry. Read more of the abstract and find the…

Last week, on January 25-27, several of the program’s participants met for a workshop that started in Lund and finished at Copenhagen. At Lund University, David Larsson Heidenblad and Elin Åström Rudberg organized a workshop on digital methods together with Swedish media scholar Pelle Snickars about the project Välfärdsstaten Analyserad (Welfare State Analytics), https://www.westac.se/. Many…

När och hur blev aktier en del av allt fler svenska ungdomars liv? Läs David Larsson Heidenblads & Charlotte Nilssons artikel Ungdomslivets finansialisering: Skapandet av en aktiekultur för och av unga i Sverige, 1985–1994 i det senaste numret av Historisk Tidskrift (Vol 142, Nr 4, 2022).

Orsi Husz understreckare i Svenska Dagbladet handlar om identitetsekonomin och hur det kommer sig att det är de privata bankerna som kontrollerar svenskarnas e-legitimationer. Från ingressen: ”Hur kommer det sig att det är bankerna och inte myndigheterna vi behöver vända oss till för e-legitimation? Skiftet i synen på vem som har tillräckligt förtroende för att…

Some photos from the conference that included lectures at Helsinki University and smaller seminar discussions with about 20 participants. It was three stimulating and inspiring days!

On August 31st, at 4-6 pm, Professor Jenny Andersson and Professor Niklas Olsen of the programme will hold two short lectures on the intellectual history of the neoliberalisation of the Nordic welfare states, at beautiful Helsinki University. The lectures are part of our research conference arranged in Helsinki on August 31st-September 2nd. Read more about…

On Friday September 16, 2022, several of our Danish colleagues arrange a book discussion together with author Søren Kolstrup about his new book: Forandringens årti – mellem velfærd og nyliberalisme 1990-2001 . Read more in the flyer below or at: https://sdunet.dk/da/enheder/institutter/ih-medarbejderportal/arrangementer.

Niklas Olsen from the programme, together with Quinn Slobodian, recently published this Introduction to a special issue on Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises in the Journal of the History of Ideas. ”Locating Ludwig von Mises: Introduction” is available open access here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/855166.

On Tuesday May 24, Chris Howell from the programme will be having a seminar at the Department of economic history at Uppsala University on the topic: ”Rethinking the Role of the State in Employment Relations for a Neoliberal Era”. Chris Howell is visiting professor at the department for two weeks in May 2022. See more…