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When 1,200 researchers from 60 countries arrived at the end of July, it marked a milestone: the largest academic congress ever held in the city – and the most important event in…

The World Economic History Congress (WEHC) is an international and interdisciplinary event, taking place every third year, and this year, it’s being held in Lund. With the…

What made the strongest impressions on the participants on the course course Innovation, Transformation and Resilience for Sustainable Development?

We asked the organizer of the upcoming LPD conference, professor Martin Dribe, three quick questions to learn more.

Did branding electric cars as feminine hold back their development for more than a hundred years? In 1900, only 22% of all US cars produced were gasoline-driven, the rest split…

An increasing number of young women are choosing to pursue higher education, both in Sweden and internationally.

Business Leader Lars Ljungälv and Professors Viswanath Venkatesh and Stephen Broadberry Appointed Honorary Doctors at LUSEM

The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to professors Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Simon Johnson also of MIT and James Robinson of…

Ingrid van Dijk is LUSEM’s first ever recipient of an ERC Starting Grant. The project “Relative Health” will thus receive EUR 1.5 million.

In its third consecutive year, LUSEM’s capacity-building programme on innovation attracted 19 participants from across Africa.

This can have major consequences for both research and decisions politicians make regarding economic policy, says Professor Emeritus Jonas Ljungberg.

We are happy to announce that Vinzent Ostermeyer is the recipient of the award for best doctoral thesis 2023 at LUSEM.

He will focus on the long-term development of demographic disparities and the factors that contribute to inequality in people’s lives.

When Emmanuel Macron visits Studentafton on 31 January, it is Sylvia Schwaag Serger, Professor of Economic History at LUSEM, who moderates the talk.

Three students from LUSEM were invited as audience for the round table discussion in Stockholm with the Nobel laureates, earlier in December 2023.

The project “Socioeconomic Segregation – The Impact of Neighborhoods, Schools & Policy Across the Life Course” will create a new research environment.

Professor Maria Stanfors has been inspired by – and had contact with – Claudia Goldin more or less throughout her research career.

This year’s Laureate of the Prize in Economic Sciences – Claudia Goldin – receives the prize for her work on uncovered key drivers of gender differences in the labour market.

Andrés Palacio, Associate professor in Economic History at LUSEM, recently got funded by Formas with almost 12 million for a research project in Colombia. The project aims to…

Kerstin Enflo is a professor of economic history at Lund University School of Economics and Management. For the past year, she has been a member of The Economic Sciences Prize…

The 2022 award winning thesis in Economic History: "For God's Sake –The Work and Long-Term Impact of Christian Missionaries in Cameroon 1844-2018".

Nordic and Andean countries started their economic modernisation in the same way: with export of raw natural resources. Later on, Norway and Sweden became rich, while Bolivia,…