There are great expectations that vaccinations will enable a return to normality from COVID-19. However, there is massive variation in vaccination efforts, vaccine access, and attitudes to vaccination...

Maria Perrotta Berlin, assistant professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Giancarlo Spagnolo, professor of Economics at University of Rome II and senior researcher at SITE,...

Half-way through the first week of COP26 negotiations, we take a moment to reflect on how Misum, as a research center grounded in sustainability work, is contributing to the broad and urgent goal of...

Mary Fisher, Director of Operations, National Academy of Design, New York

The Stockholm School of Economic’s investigation regarding the volations of Section 2 of the Disciplinary regulations, in connection with the “heckling” that took place prior to the 2015 elections to...

MIRAI 2.0 is an academic alliance among 19 Universities in Sweden and Japan, aiming to promote long-term research collaboration between the two countries. MIRAI 2.0 (2020-2022) builds on the former...

Yoshihiro Sato, postdoctoral research fellow at the European Institute of Japanese Studies, has together with colleagues at Gothenburg University received a grant of 3.1 mn SEK from Riksbankens...

Swedish big business and the Harpsund conferences 1955–1962

Misum´s Max Jerneck is interviewed in The Atlantic about his new paper on how financialization harms the climate. The paper was published March 29 in Science Advances. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to a pre-existing threat to global health: the quality of air in cities around the world. Prolonged exposure to air pollution has been found to increase the...