We are very excited about the new research opportunities that this VR funding opens up for the department.
27.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@oolsson.bsky.social
Professor of Economics and HoD at University of Gothenburg Economic growth, development economics and economic history. Author of "Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory” https://sites.google.com/site/econolaols/home
We are very excited about the new research opportunities that this VR funding opens up for the department.
27.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Kul att långsiktig ekonomisk tillväxt blir föremål för ännu ett Nobelpris! I artikeln nedan kommenterar mina kollegor och jag pristagarnas bidrag.
www.gu.se/nyheter/uppt...
Väldigt glad för denna fina recension av min bok Paleoeconomics i @ekonomiskdebatt.bsky.social !
www.nationalekonomi.se/artikel/pale...
Will we be able to trust key economic data from the US again?
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Just presented my paper on weather shocks and monument construction during the Classic Maya period at the WEHC in Lund. Happy for the great lineup of very interesting papers and presenters and for the turnout. Also thrilled to find my book in the book exhibition!
30.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jag kommenterar handelsavtalet mellan EU-USA i dagens Di. Jag tycker att EU vek ned sig alldeles för lätt. Inget hindrar Trump från att kräva ännu mer senare. Att ensidigt acceptera 15% tullar är orimligt.
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I was interviewed a short time ago in Javier’s excellent EPH Podcast about my book Paleoeconomics. I hope you enjoy listening to it.
www.linkedin.com/posts/javier...
EU should of course respond with tariffs in line with the measures agreed on in April. Time to take a break from the flattery that EU leaders have tried in different fora and show resolve.
12.07.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kommenterar senatens behandling av Trumps budget Dagens ETC.
02.07.2025 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to @rhelensdotter.bsky.social !
01.07.2025 08:17 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Several members of faculty in the development group @gothenburg-econ.bsky.social have taken part in this nice collaboration as supervisors. We thank our Ethiopian friends for their visit and hope for fruitful research interaction in the future.
12.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There are of course numerous lessons from recent history about what Trump’s handling of the unrest in LA might lead to. The most worrying is probably ”Crackdowns can be steppingstones to wider power grabs.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...
Our frequent guest and affiliated colleague Martin Berg Karlsson @drdemant.bsky.social has co-authored a paper on German health insurance that is forthcoming in @jpolecon.bsky.social. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1086/734781
01.06.2025 13:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0An illustration of how the Trump administration’s counterproductive tariffs hurt even the manufacturing of Swedish cars in the US.
30.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our results show that while extreme Nile floods result in a greater degree of political instability (ruler and dynastic tenure durations), periods with a greater rainfall in the hinterland cause a decline in state capacity and a delayed increase in political instability.
30.05.2025 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Effective enviromental circumscription was created through an interplay between Nile floods (proxied by rainfall over Highland Ethiopia) and Mediterranean rains that determined the productivity of the hinterland.
30.05.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My paper with Laura Mayoral on the political impact of floods and droughts in Ancient Egypt, is now assigned to an issue of JEconGrowth. We provide evidence of a "dynamic circumscription model" where Egypt was sometimes like a "social cage" where rulers could easily dominate.
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We were very happy to host Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin today during seminars and an important keynote lecture. Thanks to all 700 participants irl and online for attending!
www.gu.se/en/event/cla...
Very good!!
27.04.2025 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Such an incredibly well deserved PL title!!!
27.04.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So true. But it also comes with a responsibility to be better at defending our freedom.
economist.com/europe/2025/...
Good to see that Harvard takes the lead in this important fight for academic freedom.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
Yet another interview with me on the political economy of Trump’s tariff circus (in Swedish).
www.dn.se/ekonomi/expe...
Interview about the crisis in Affärsvärlden (in Swedish).
www.affarsvarlden.se/artikel/ekon...
In particular, why did so many seemingly well-informed finance guys delude themselves to this extent?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
This is remarkably close to what we had six days ago. The average tariff rate of most European nations was about 1%.
05.04.2025 17:59 — 👍 1036 🔁 234 💬 46 📌 8This is absolutely horrifying. Turkish graduate at Tufts student is picked up and removed to undisclosed destination by ICE, apparently because she wrote a pro-Palestinian oped.
26.03.2025 21:13 — 👍 101 🔁 43 💬 8 📌 21. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.