Gabriel Söderberg

Short presentation

I am a researcher in economic history at Uppsala University. At present my research is divided into two projects:

1) The history and future of money and payments.

2) The nature and causes of economic instability in a broad sense.

Biography

Books

Finance in the Welfare State: Banking Development and Regulatory Principles in Sweden 1900-2015 (with Mats Larsson), London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017.

The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn (with Avner Offer), Princeton: Princeton University 2016.

Constructing Invisible Hands: Market Technocrats in Sweden 1880-2000, Dissertation, Uppsala University 2013.

Parts of books

“En objektiv marknad? Den statliga utredningen om objektiviteten i svensk växtnäringsforskning och –försöksväsen 1957-1960”, in Bruno, Karl and Per Lundin (eds.) Antologi om Statens Lantbruksuniversitets historia. Forth-coming Arkiv förlag.

"Hayek in Citations and the Nobel Memorial Prize", in Robert Leeson (ed.) Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part 1, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (with Avner Offer and Samuel Bjork), 2013.

"Dovring as economist and social reformer" & "On light and shadows" in Janken Myrdal’s The Dovring Saga, Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien 2010.

Journal papers

"Time Series Citation Data: The Nobel Prize in Economics" (with Samuel Bjork and Avner Offer), Scientometrics 98:185-196, 2014.

"Skapande förstörelse i marknader genom teknokrater och marknadsmisslyckanden", Ekonomisk Debatt 7:56-65, 2014.

Non-refereed publications

“Vem styr den osynliga handen?”, Liberal debatt, 2016:3, 48-50, 2016.

Book reviews

"Att vara utom sig inom sig" av Viktoria Fareld, Historisk Tidskrift, 2010:1, 124-125, 2010.

CV

Education

2013 Ph. D. in Economic History, Uppsala University

2008 MA in Economic History, Uppsala University

2006 MA in Economics, Uppsala University

Work experience

Economist, Sveriges Riksbank, 2015 -

Lecturer and researcher, Uppsala University, 2014

Researcher, University of Oxford, 2011

Research assistant, Department of Agrarian History, Swedish University of Agrarian Science, 2007

Teaching

Quantitative Methods, Uppsala University

History of Economic Thought, Uppsala University, Södertörn University

Economics A/ Principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics 7,5 p, Gotland University

Sweden’s Economic and Social Development 7,5 p,Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Man and the machine 7,5 p, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University

Global Environmental History 7,5 p, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University

The Global Economy 15 hp, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University

Sustainable Development A 15 p, Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University

Course planning

Quantitative Methods, Uppsala University

History of Economic Thought, Södertörn University

Sweden’s Economic and Social Development 7,5 p,Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Essay Writing 7,5 p, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Research Paper 15 hp, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Tutoring

Essay Writing 7,5 p, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Research Paper 15 hp, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Bachelor thesis papers, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University

Academic Positions, Appointments and Networks

Exchange student coordinator, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, 2009.

Chairman of the Society of Ph.D. Students and Board Rep. of Ph.D. Students, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, 2008-2009

Representative of Ph.D. students of the Board of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, 2008 -

Member of the Board of The Kalmar Foundation (Kalmarstiftelsen) 2014