historien

Sverige 2020. Vad kan historiker säga om framtiden?
Klimatkris, terrorhot och välfärdsstatens kollaps de framtida hotbilderna staplas på varandra av klimatforskare, demografer och samhällsvetare. Men vad innebär ett historiskt perspektiv på framtids

Kontanternas historia och framtid
Andelen kontanta betalningar minskar, och år 2030 förutspås Sverige vara helt kontantlöst. Hur hamnade vi här och hur bör vi se på utvecklingen? Medverkande: Hendrik Mäkeler, 1:e antikvarie, Uppsala u
Review of Miracles in Medieval Canonizations Processes
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New episode of The New World: Capitalism after the pandemic
Historian Adam Tooze is the guest in the second episode of The New World - a podcast from the Institute for Futures Studies and Aftonbladet Kultur. Is the global response to the coronavirus outbreak a

The New World - #2 Adam Tooze
Historian Adam Tooze is the guest in the second episode of The New World - a podcast from the Institute for Futures Studies and Aftonbladet Kultur. Is the global response to the coronavirus outbreak a
On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa
One commonly observed phenomena on taxation in Africa are regional differences and that southern African countries have higher levels of shares of taxation in GDP. Using a panel data framework and div

Offentliga samtal: Berikas eller utarmas det svenska språket?
Språkutveckling, invandring och internationalisering Ibland får vi läsa att det svenska språket är hotat. Det kan röra sig om engelskans inflytande på bekostnad av svenskan, ungdomens slangord och b

A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"
What is it like growing up in a system that is breaking down? Lea Ypi, born in Albania in 1979, is professor of political theory at London School of Economics and in 2021 her widely acclaimed memoar F

Maria Wallenberg Bondesson
I am a historian, and defended my thesis at Stockholm University in 2003. In my thesis, I studied different types of religious conflicts in Sweden in the 17th-19th centuries. Since 2007 my research has
Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967
I: Intelligence, Vol. 84 AbstractRecent evidence suggests a positive association between fertility and cognitive ability among Swedish men. In this study we use data on 18 birth cohorts of Swedish men t