CURRICULUM VITAE Karl Gunnar Persson. Office

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Karl Gunnar Persson Office UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN Department of Economics Phone Fax Education BA, 1968 Political science, Economic history University of Lund Fil lic (Ph D) Economic history 1972, University of Lund Fil Doktor, Economic history 1978, University of Lund Academic job history Research Fellow in a Swedish National Bank Tricentennial Fund sponsored research project at the Institute of Economic History, University of Lund, Lecturer in Social science and Economics at Roskilde University Centre, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Reader at the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Professor at the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1999-

2 Present and past administrative functions Deputy Head of the Institute of Economics ( ) Head of Department 2006/7 Founding co-editor of European Review of Economic History ( ) Editor of Zeuthen Lecture Books Series, MIT Press Co-ordinator of the Zeuthen Lectures Member of the board of the Institute Other jobs Free-lance writing for magazines, newspapers and the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation Visiting Positions Academic Visitor at London School of Economics, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1993 and 2000 in periods of differing length Visiting Professor at the Department of Economic History University of Gothenburg April - May 1991 Visiting Fellow at Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, March 1993 Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, April - May 1993 Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Science, Australian National University April - May 1994 Visiting Fellow at Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Melbourne University, October 2000 Fernand Braudel Scholar, European University Institute, Florence Fall Teaching In the past: Various aspects of European economic history ( ) including labour market and welfare state institution. Undergraduate and graduate levels. Supervisor/external examiner at master and PhD-level. At present: The undergraduate half semester course European Economic History From Pre-industrial Times to the Present. The graduate full semester (3 hours a week) course The Economic History of Globalization. Both courses are taught in English.

3 Research interests Long term economic growth Market integration and market performance in history Modes of transmission of commercial intelligence Comparative European economic history Political economy of the Enlightenment Scientific societies and networks, honours Present Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science The John Hicks Lecture, All Souls, Oxford, May 2002 Past Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society Co-ordinator of the European Science Foundation network on Market integration in historical perspective Founding president of European Historical Economics Society (serving ) Founding co-editor of European Economic History Review, Trustee, European Historical Economics Society Co-ordinator of the ESF network on Historical market integration research Organizer and/or programme committee member for European Historical Economics Society's (EHES) first congress in Copenhagen, June 1991 EHES' workshop Market Integration from the Renaissance to the Present Lerici, Italy, April 1993 European Commission/EHES' First Summer School, Florence, July 1994 (with Cormac O'Grada) Session C:10 at the Eleventh International Economic History Congress, September 1994 (with D. McCloskey) European Commission/EHES' Second Summer School, Groningen, June 1995 (with Bart van Ark) University of Copenhagen workshop, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Past October 1995 European Commission/EHES' Third Summer School, Pisa-Montecatini, June 1996 (with Paolo Malanima och Giovanni Federico) The European Historical Economics Society, Second Congress, Venice, January 1996 (Programme committee with Gianni Toniolo and James Foreman-Peck) EREH workshop Controversies in European Economic History, November 1996 The European Historical Economics Society, Third Congress, Lisbon, October 1999 (programme committee with Jaime Reis and Cormac Ó Gráda) European Science Foundation Workshop Market Performance and Efficiency in the Past, Venice, December 1999 Sound Economic History Workshop Long Term Trends in the World Economy, Copenhagen, December 2000 (with Jeffrey G. Williamson)

4 Refereeing Economic Development and Cultural Change Economic History Review Explorations in Economic History Journal of Economic History Journal of Public Economics Scandinavian Economic History Review European Review of Economic History Social Science Foundations in various nations Short visits and guest lectures Alphabetic order Australian National University, Research School of Social Science OFCE-Delta, Paris European University Institute, Florence Harvard University Institut Nationale de la Recherche Agricole Katholieke Universiteit Leuven London School of Economics Melbourne University Northwestern University Universidad Carlos III de Madrid University of British Columbia California at Davis Gothenburg Jyväskylä Lund Manchester Stockholm Sydney Tampere Umeå Uppsala Utrecht Warwick Aarhus

5 Lectures/papers at international conferences (Selected) Colloque de Nice, Centre d'études médiévales, Nice, France 1982 Economic and Social Research Council Quantitative Economic History Workshop, UK Newcastle 1987 Brighton 1988 Cliometric Society Second World Congress, Santander, Spain 1987 The Bellagio Workshop on Agrarian Development in the Past, Bellagio, Italy, 1987 Third Anglo-American Seminar on the Medieval Society and Economy, Chester, UK 1989 European Economic Association: Second Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark1987 Third Congress Bologna, Italy1988 Fifth Congress Lisbon, Portugal 1990 Tenth International Economic History Congress, 1990, Leuven, Belgium Twenty-second IARIW General Conference, Flims, Switzerland 1992 EHES' Workshop on Market Integration from the Renaissance to the Present, Lerici, Italy 1993 International Colloquium on Long Term Economic Growth, Leuven, Belgium 1993 Eleventh International Economic History Congress, Milano, Italy 1994 Institutions and Economic Performance in the Past, Copenhagen, Denmark 1995 EHES Third Summer School, Montecatini, Italy 1996 Cliometric Society 38th Congress, St Louis, USA 1998 European Science Foundation workshop Historical Market Integration: Market Performance and Efficiency in the Past, Venice, Italy 1999 and Florence New Comparative Economic History Conference in honour of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge, Harvard, October th European Historical Economics Conference, Geneva, September List of publications in separate document