Publications

Publikationer 2025

Utvalda publikationer av programmets deltagare från 2025

Vetenskapliga publikationer

Andersson, Jenny (2025), ”Capital Interest: Privatisation in Sweden”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Andersson, Jenny & Chris Howell (2025), ”Introduction”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Andersson, Jenny (2025), ”Neoliberalism from Within: The Business Fund and the Struggle for Market Ideology in Sweden”, Contemporary European History

Andersson, Jenny & Chris Howell (eds.) (2025), Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970 (Routledge).

Andersson, Jenny & Niklas Olsen (2025), ”Nordic Neoliberals in Intellectual History”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Bjerre, Cecilie & Klaus Petersen (2025), ”Scandinavian Family-State Relationships in Neoliberal Times: The Politics of Parenthood in Scandinavia, 1970s to 1990s”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Glover, Nikolas, Urban Lundberg, Jeppe Nevers & Kristine Kjaersgaard (2025), ”From NIEO-Liberalism to Neoliberalism: Denmark, Sweden, and the Changing Role of Development Finance”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Howell, Chris (2025), ”Interrogating Nordic Neoliberalism: Industrial Relations Change in Nordic Countries”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Husz, Orsi, David Larsson Heidenblad & Elin Åström Rudberg (2025), ”Wage Earners, Taxpayers or Everyman Capitalists? The Making of a Mutual Fund Culture in Sweden”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Kärrylä, Ilkka (2025), ”Naming, Claming and Blaming an Intellectual Tradition: Translations and Receptions of the Term ’Neoliberalism’ in the Nordic Countries”, Scandinavian Journal of History

Strang, Johan (2025), ”Rights Against the Welfare State: Timbro and the Neoliberal Mobilisation of Legalist Constitutionalism in Sweden, 1980–2000”, Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics After 1970. Routledge.

Åström Rudberg, Elin (2025), ”Lifestyle Research and the Making of the Sovereign Consumer in Late-Twentieth Century Sweden”, Contemporary European History

Populärvetenskapliga publikationer

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2025), ”Läste en bok – och gjorde mitt livs förlustaffär”, Svenska Dagbladet

Publikationer 2024

Utvalda publikationer av programmets deltagare från 2024

Vetenskapliga publikationer

Andersson, Jenny (2024), ”Architects of the Mixed Economy: Assar Lindbeck, Ingemar Ståhl, and Gösta Rehn”, Modern Intellectual History

Bengtsson, Erik (accepted, forthcoming), “The Changing Meaning of the Wage Bargaining Round in Sweden since the 1960s: A Contextual Approach to Shifts in Industrial Relations”, Economic and Industrial Democracy

Bengtsson, Erik & Kristin Alsos, Søren Kaj Andersen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen & Kristine Neergaard (2024), “The politics of inflation and revitalisation of wage solidarity in Scandinavia”. Den är publicerad i Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

Innset, Ola & Elin Åström Rudberg (2024), ”Varieties of Marketization: Introducing a new Framework for the Study of Market Reforms in Nordic Welfare States”, Nordisk välfärdsforskning/Nordic Welfare Research 9 (1), 11-27.

Larsson Heidenblad, David & Axel Vikström (accepted, forthcoming), ”Creating Digital Finance for the Many: The Emergence of Online Brokerage Firms in Sweden, 1996-2000”, History of Intellectual Culture

Nilsson, Charlotte (2024), ”Turning Students into Stock-Market Investors: The Role of Civil Society and Public Schools in Swedish Financialization c. 1985-2010”, Enterprise & Society, e-pub ahead of print, open access.

Strang, Johan & Christopher S. Browning & Marko Lehti eds. (2024), Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace (Routledge)

Strang, Johan (2024), ”Nordic Peace Since the End of History: Exceptionality without Distinction” in Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace (Routledge) Christopher S. Browning, Marko Lehti & Johan Strang (eds.)

Åström Rudberg, Elin (accepted, forthcoming), ”Lifestyle Research and the Making of the Sovereign Consumer in Late Twentieth-Century Sweden”, Contemporary European History.

Populärvetenskapliga publikationer

Andersson, Jenny (2024), ”Näringslivets kulturrevolution”, Respons

Petersen, Klaus et. al (2024), ”De ’varme hænder’ siger fra: Vreden over velfærdsstaten har fået en ny form”, Videnskab.dk

Petersen, Klaus et. al (2024), ”Integrationspolitik plejede at bygge på tal og statistik. Det ser ud til ændre sig nu”, Videnskab.dk

Petersen, Klaus et. al (2024), ”Skolemad: Skal staten smøre madpakken?”, Videnskab.dk

Petersen, Klaus et al. (2024), ”Vil du og din gymnasieklasse skrive ny danmarkshistorie?”, Videnskab.dk

Publikationer 2023

Utvalda publikationer av programmets deltagare från 2023

Vetenskapliga publikationer

Andersson, Jenny, Nikolas Glover, Orsi Husz and David Larsson Heidenblad (eds.) (2023). Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Andersson, Jenny and Niklas Olsen (2023). ”Introduction: libertarianism in the Nordics since the 1980s” Introduction to special issue, “Nordic Libertarians” in Journal of Political Ideologies.

Andersson, Jenny (2023). “The Freedom Front and the welfare state counter revolution”, for special issue ”Nordic Libertarians” in Journal of Political Ideologies (open access).

Andersson, Jenny, Nikolas Glover, Orsi Husz and David Larsson Heidenblad (2023). ”Bortom vänstervind och högervåg”, Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Andersson, Jenny (2023). “Du har fullständiga rättigheter. Frihetsfronten och det radikala frihetsbegreppet”, in Andersson, Jenny, Husz, Orsi, Glover, Nikolas & Larsson Heidenblad, David (eds.), Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Åström Rudberg, Elin (2023). “Satsa på dig själv! Näringslivets politiska marknadsföring mot ungdomar”, in Andersson, Jenny, Husz, Orsi, Glover, Nikolas & Larsson Heidenblad, David (eds.), Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Bengtsson, Erik, (2023). “Arbetsmarknadens marknadsanpassning: lönebildningen och det gemensamma intresset”, in Jenny Andersson, Orsi Husz, Nikolas Glover, and David Larsson Heidenblad (eds.) Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium, (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Glover, Nikolas (2023). “Världsmarknadernas tid: De multinationella företagen och den nya internationalismen”, in Jenny Andersson, David Heidenblad Larsson, Orsi Husz & Nikolas Glover (eds.), Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Husz, Orsi (2023). ”The Birth of the Finance Consumer: Feminists, Bankers and the Re-Gendering of Finance in Mid-Twentieth-Century Sweden”. Contemporary European History, 1-20 (e-pub ahead of print), open access.

Husz, Orsi (2023). ”Kreditkortskriget. Kooperativa Förbundet och den finansiellt rationella konsumenten”, in Jenny Andersson, David Heidenblad Larsson, Orsi Husz & Nikolas Glover (eds.), Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Kärrylä, Ilkka, Strang, Johan & Wuokko, Maiju (2023) “Fragments of libertarianism and neoliberal ascendancy: Ideological features and limitations of the liberal breakthrough in Finland”, for special issue in Journal of Political Ideologies edited by Jenny Andersson and Niklas Olsen.

Kärrylä, Ilkka (2023). “Ideological and pragmatic transformations: The adoption of neoliberal ideas by Finnish and Swedish conservative parties since the 1970s.” Scandinavian Journal of History, 48 (E-pub ahead of print) https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2230209.

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2023). “Marknadsleken: Aktie-SM och populariseringen av aktiesparande” in Andersson, Jenny, Husz, Orsi, Glover, Nikolas & Larsson Heidenblad, David (eds.), Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Larsson Heidenblad, David & Charlotte Nilsson (2023). “Personal Finance Bloggers as Self-Styled Knowledge Authorities: Performing, Embodying, and Circulating Knowledge Online in the 21st Century” in Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad & Anna Nilsson Hammar, Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge, Nordic Academic Press.

Marklund, Carl, (2023). ”Krångla lagom! Välfärdsstatskritiken och byråkratiseringsdebatten”, in Andersson, Jenny, Husz, Orsi, Glover, Nikolas & Larsson Heidenblad, David (eds.),Marknadens tid: mellan folkhemskapitalism och nyliberalism, Nordic Academic Press/Kriterium (https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21525/kriterium.54/).

Nevers, Jeppe, Kristoffer Jensen & Morten Pedersen (2023). “Engineer Capitalism in the Danish Business System”, Business History, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2181956 (pre-print available at https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/JeppeNevers/publications).

Nevers, Jeppe & Julian Lamberty (2023). “The Voice of Business in Denmark’s Neoliberal Turn”, e-pub ahead of print in Scandinavian Journal of History (pre-print will be available at https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/JeppeNevers/publications).

Vestermark Køber, Jesper & Niklas Olsen (2023), “Privatizing the Welfare State: Danish Libertarianism from the 1980s to the 2000s”, in special issue in Journal of Political Ideologies edited by Jenny Andersson and Niklas Olsen, DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2023.2249646.
A pre-print of the article can be found here!

Populärvetenskapliga publikationer

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2023), ”När Olle Wästberg lärde svenskarna aktiespara”, Svenska Dagbladet

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2023), ”Silicon Valley har alltid varit beroende av staten”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2023), ”De som överlever krisen har en sak gemensamt”, Svenska Dagbladet,

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2023), ”Aktiesparande – så blev Sverige ett av världens aktietätaste länder”, Populär historia, #3.

Publikationer 2022

Utvalda publikationer av programmets deltagare från 2022

Vetenskapliga publikationer

Bjerre, C., Haastrup, M. F., & Petersen, K. (2022). Citizen Science in the Humanities: Implementing the Collaborative History Model (CHM) in the classroom. P o S – Proceedings of Science, 418, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.418.0067.

Friberg, Anna & Kärrylä, Ilkka (2022), ”Ekonomisk demokrati”. In Hansson, Jonas & Savin, Kristiina (ed.), Svenska begreppshistorier: från antropocen till åsiktskorridor. Stockholm: Fri tanke, 51–61.

Husz Orsi (2022), Identitetsekonomin (The identity economy), Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond/Makadam förlag, 61 s, open access online, in Swedish and in English.

Kärrylä, Ilkka, “The Young Finns Party and the Plan for Neoliberal Retasking of the Welfare State in Post-Cold War Finland”. Contemporary European History 31 (E-pub ahead of print) https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777322000480. 

Kärrylä, Ilkka (2022), ”Concepts, Beliefs and Their Constellations: A Proposal for Analytical Categories in the Study of Human Thought”. Contributions to the History of Concepts 17: 1, 62–83 https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2022.170104. 

Larsson Heidenblad, David & Charlotte Nilsson (2022) ”Ungdomslivets finansialisering: Skapandet av en aktiekultur för och av unga i Sverige, 1985-1994”, Historiskt tidskrift 142:4
https://www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/june20/article/view/646.

Outinen, Sami, Kärrylä, Ilkka & Granadino, Alan, ”From Democratic Socialism to Neoliberalisation: Political and Ideological Evolution of Nordic Social Democrats and Portuguese Socialists After the Economic Crisis of the 1970s.” In Granadino, Alan, Nygård, Stefan & Stadius, Peter (ed.), Rethinking European Social Democracy and Socialism: The History of the Centre-Left in Northern and Southern Europe in the Late 20th Century. London: Routledge, 29–47.  

Petersen, K., & Bjerre, C. (2022). Social Policy in Denmark. I Oxford Bibliographies: Social Work Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195389678-0314.

Vestermark Køber, Jesper. Det lille systemskifte. Århus Universitetsforlag (Accepted).

Vestermark Køber, Jesper. “Grænser for demokrati.” Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idehistorie, vol. 85. (In press)

Vestermark Køber, Jesper (2022). ”Henning Fonsmark and the reformulation of democracy.” Scandinavian Journal of History. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2022.2086170.

Wuokko, M., Fellman, S., & Kärrylä, I. (2022). ”Victory through defence: Employers’ policy preferences and success in the industrial democracy reform process in Finland, 1960s–1970s”. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(4), 1842–1866. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X211032271.

Åström Rudberg, Elin (2022), ”Doing business in the schools of the welfare state: Competing ‘entrepreneurial selves’ and the roots of entrepreneurship education in 1980s Sweden”, Enterprise & Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2022.26

Populärvetenskapliga publikationer

Bjerre, C., Petersen, K., & Haastrup, M. F. (2022). ”Vores Historie” – Citizen Science i gymnasiet. Noter / Historielærerforeningen for Gymnasiet og HF, 234, 55. https://historielaerer.dk/noter-234-middelalderen/.

Husz, Orsi (2022), ”Vad har bankerna med våra identiteter att skaffa?”, Svenska Dagbladet, Under Strecket, 3 december, https://www.svd.se/a/2BVpJr/vad-har-bankerna-med-vara-identiteter-att-skaffa.

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2022), ”När Lili & Susie lockade ut kidsen på börsen”, Svenska Dagbladet, Under strecket, 17 december https://www.svd.se/a/EQb9gP/nar-lili-susie-lockade-ut-kidsen-pa-borsen

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2022), ”Dagens aktieshopping gammal politisk dröm”, Svenska Dagbladet, Under strecket, 29 augusti https://www.svd.se/a/mrG78q/dagens-aktieshopping-gammal-politisk-drom

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2022), ”Därför sparar allt fler unga på börsen”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 22 juni https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2022-06-22/darfor-sparar-allt-fler-unga-pa-borsen

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2022), ”Aktie-SM 1979” i Bildningsboxen (Norstedts) https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2022-06-22/darfor-sparar-allt-fler-unga-pa-borsen

Åström Rudberg, Elin (2022) ”The rise of entrepreneurship in Swedish schools”, Nordics.info, https://nordics.info/show/artikel/the-rise-of-entrepreneurship-in-swedish-schools.

Publikationer 2021

Utvalda publikationer av programmets deltagare från 2021

Vetenskapliga publikationer

Kärrylä, Ilkka (2021). Democracy and the Economy in Finland and Sweden since 1960: A Nordic Perspective on Neoliberalism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Link: Democracy and the Economy in Finland and Sweden since 1960 | SpringerLink

Jesper Vestermark Køber, Niklas Olsen, Heidi Vad Jønsson (eds.) (2021). Citizen Categories in the Danish Welfare State: From the Founding Epoch to the Neoliberal Era. University Press of Southern Denmark.

Jesper Vestermark Køber. ”The Democrat,” in , Jesper Vestermark Køber, Niklas Olsen, Heidi Vad Jønsson (eds.). Citizen Categories in the Danish Welfare State: From the Founding Epoch to the Neoliberal Era (Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2021), 47-66.

Jesper Vestermark Køber. ”Introduction,” in Jesper Vestermark Køber, Niklas Olsen, Heidi Vad Jønsson (eds.). Citizen Categories in the Danish Welfare State: From the Founding Epoch to the Neoliberal Era (Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2021), 9-22.

Husz, O., & Larsson Heidenblad, D. (2021). The Making of Everyman’s Capitalism in Sweden: Micro-Infrastructures, Unlearning, and Moral Boundary Work. Enterprise & Society, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.41.

Glover, Nikolas (2021). ”Sweden, South Africa and the business of partnership in the 1990s
Marketing internationalism in an era of globalisation” Culture Unbound, 13(1) https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/3324.

Vestermark Køber, Jesper (2021). “Socialdemokratisk nostalgi”, Arbejderhistorie. Accepted, to be published in the fall of 2021.

Populärvetenskapliga publikationer

Åström Rudberg, Elin (2021). ”Så blev svenskarna sålda på att starta eget”, Svenska Dagbladet, Under Strecket, 20 oktober 2021.   

Andersson, Jenny. Podcast, What is neoliberalism in a Nordic perspective? To be published, SCAS talks, Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies, June 2021.

Bjerre, Cecilie. “Børnelove har altid været politiske værdikampe.”, Politiken, April 10, 2021.

Bjerre, C. (2021). Hvis nu far hellere vil fiske. Weekendavisen, (sektion 4), 7.

Larsson Heidenblad, David. ”Social men inte intellektuell distansering”, Respons nr. 1, 2021.

Larsson Heidenblad, David. ”Kampanjen som gjorde aktier till en folksport”, Svenska Dagbladet under strecket, 2021-02-18.

Strang, Johan. ‘Hägerström, Uppsalafilosofin och välfärdsstatens uppgång och fall’, Salongen: Nettidsskrift for filosofi, April 2021. https://www.salongen.no/hagerstrom-uppsalafilosofin-och-valfardsstatens-uppgang-och-fall/.

Strang, Johan. ’Vår älskade dystopi’, in Svenska institutet, Bilden av Sverige i Norden: en studie i Danmark, Finland, Island och Norge, 2021. https://si.se/app/uploads/2021/03/bilden-av-sverige-i-norden.pdf. 

Publikationer 2020

Utvalda publikationer av programmets deltagare från 2020.

Vetenskapliga publikationer

Andersson, Jenny (2020). Neoliberalism Against Social Democracy, Tocqueville Review, How Neoliberalism Reinvented Democracy, 41(2), pp. 87-107. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/ttr.41.2.87.

Andersson, Jenny (2020) Ghost in a Shell: The Scenario Tool and the World Making of Royal Dutch Shell, Business History Review, 94(4).

Husz, Orsi (2020). “The entrepreneur’s dream. Credit card history between PR and academic research”, in Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas and Ambitions, eds. Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad & Niklas Olsen, Routledge. 29 s. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/entrepreneur-dream-orsi-husz/e/10.4324/9781003019275-10?context=ubx&refId=f23f2687-d7c6-4e05-9be4-2d38b5a40f3d.

Husz, Orsi (2020). “Money cards and identity cards. De-vicing consumer credit in post-war Sweden”,Journal of Cultural Economy, 20 s. (https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2020.1719868 (online, ahead of print).

Kärrylä, Ilkka. (2020) ”A Cautionary Tale: Reception of the Swedish Wage-earner Fund Debate in Finland”. Työväentutkimus 34, 21–37. https://journal.fi/tyovaentutkimus/article/view/95602/57858.

Lamberty, Julian & Nevers, Jeppe (2020). ”The Entrepreneurial State in Action: The Danish Robotics Cluster and the Role of the Public Sector”, Enterprise and Society. Published online by Cambridge University Press, 19 October 2020, pp. 1-31.

Larsson Heidenblad, David (2020). ”Financial Knowledge: A Rich New Venture for Historians of Knowledge”, in Östling, Johan, Larsson Heidenblad, David & Nilsson Hammar, Anna (eds.) Forms of Knowledge: Developing the History of Knowledge Lund: Nordic Academic Press.

Östling, Johan, Olsen, Niklas & Larsson Heidenblad, David (eds.) (2020). Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Petersen, K., & Hansen, J. S. (2020). Digitalization and the Danish Welfare State: Policies, Institutional Changes and Strategic Dilemmas. Journal of Policy Science, 27(3), 97-113.

Strang, Johan; Hagtvedt Vik, Hanne; Jensen, Steven L.B.  & Lindkvist, Linde (eds.) (2020). Nordic Histories of Human Rights, Oxon/NY: Routledge.

Strang, Johan (2020). “Introduction: Histories of Human Rights in the Nordic Countries”, in Strang, Johan; Hagtvedt Vik, Hanne; Jensen, Steven L.B.  & Lindkvist, Linde (eds.) Nordic Histories of Human Rights, Oxon/NY: Routledge.

Strang, Johan (2020).“Scandinavian Legal Realism and Human Rights: Axel Hägerström, Alf Ross and the Persistent attack on Natural Law”, in Strang, Johan; Hagtvedt Vik, Hanne; Jensen, Steven L.B.  & Lindkvist, Linde (eds.) Nordic Histories of Human Rights, Oxon/NY: Routledge.

Strang Johan (2020). “Scandinavia: A corporatist model of knowledge?”, in Östling, Olsen, & Heidenblad (eds), Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia, London: Routledge.

Populärvetenskapliga publikationer

David Larsson Heidenblad, ”Så blev det riskkapitalister av oss allihopa”, Svenska Dagbladet, december 2020.

Kärrylä, Ilkka. (2020): ”Nordic public debt: the dangers of restricting public spending due to the covid-19 crisis”. Nordics.info 11 May 2020. https://nordics.info/show/artikel/-07f9a72a5a/

Strang, Johan.”Det nordiska samarbetet står handfallet inför kriser som drabbar hela regionen på en gång”, Hufvudstadsbladet, June 26, 2020.

Strang, Johan. “Why do the Nordic countries react differently to the covid-19 crisis?”, Nordics.info, June 4, 2020.