What is the history of knowledge? And how is it related to the history of education and the history of ideas and sciences? In the new issue of the yearbook Lychnos, Johan Östling discusses these questions (in Swedish) with Staffan Bergwik (Stockholm) and Maria Larsson (Umeå). Their conversation is available here: https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25009/22079 Image: Thérèse Schwartze, Portrait of…
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Funding for new project on financial knowledge and market communicators
David Larsson Heidenblad has received funding for a new project on the popularisation of stock saving in Sweden. Together with Axel Vikström, (currently PhD-student at Örebro University) he will investigate the role of ”Market communicators”, such as stock market columnists, private finance advisors, and so called ’savings economists’, tracing developments from 1980 to 2020. The…