Lars Magnusson#
Membership Number: | 5118 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
Elected: | 2019 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://ekhist.uu.se |
Present and Previous Positions
- Full professor of Economic History, Uppsala University since 1992
- He served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and as Vice-Rector of Uppsala University
- Visiting positions at a number of insitutions, including as
- Directeur d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales on six occasions
- Visiting Professor at the European Univeristy Insitute in Florence on five occasions
- Numerous other positions in Swedish and European academia, including serving as Research Director at the Swedish National Institute for Studies of Working Life
Fields of Scholarship
- Study of mercantilism
- Long-term development of welfare state societies
- Agricultural and industrial history
- Studies of working life
- Social and economic history
- Intellectual history
- History of economic and social thought
Honours and Awards
- Full member of
- Royal Swedish Acdemy of Sciences as well as of the
- Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala.
- Chair of the Board of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
- Vice Rector of Uppsala University
- 2006 Honorary Doctor of Kyoto University
- Scientific Board of the Tolouse Business School
- Full member of the Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics (the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)
- 2019 Full member of the Board of the Swedish Research Council
- Research Fellow of the Max Planck Insitute for History (Göttingen three times, where he has also been a Fellow of the Insitute for Advanced Study (Lichtenberg-Kolleg)
- Invited Directeur d'études, EHESS, Paris on four occasions
- Invited Professor at EUI, Florence, on six occasions