Jenny Andersson
Professor at Department of History of Science and Ideas
- E-mail:
- jenny.andersson@idehist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
- Postal address:
- Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Jenny Andersson is professor in the history of ideas and science. She is on leave as research professor of the CNRS and affiliated with the Centre d'études européennes et compares de Sciences Po.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge, p. 207-230, Routledge, 2025
- DOI for Thinking the Human System: The Application of Humanities and Social Science Reasoning to Societal Problems
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Neoliberalism from Within: The Business Fund and the Struggle for Market Ideology in Sweden
Part of Contemporary European History, p. 380-396, 2025
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Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology
Part of Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, p. 417-422, 2024
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Architects of the Mixed Economy: Assar Lindbeck, Ingemar Ståhl, and Gösta Rehn
Part of Modern Intellectual History, p. 947-969, 2024
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Part of European Journal of Social Theory, p. 174-190, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
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Neoliberalism from Within: The Business Fund and the Struggle for Market Ideology in Sweden
Part of Contemporary European History, p. 380-396, 2025
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Part of European Journal of Social Theory, p. 174-190, 2024
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The freedom Front and the welfare state counter revolution
Part of Journal of Political Ideologies, p. 334-354, 2023
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Introduction: libertarianism in the Nordics since the 1980s
Part of Journal of Political Ideologies, p. 319-333, 2023
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Planning the American Future: Daniel Bell, Future Research, and the Commission on the Year 2000
Part of Journal of the History of Ideas, p. 661-682, 2021
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Ghost in a Shell: The Scenario Tool and the World Making of Royal Dutch Shell
Part of Business history review, p. 729-751, 2020
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The future of the Western world: the OECD and the Interfutures project
Part of Journal of Global History, p. 126-144, 2019
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Closing the Future: Environmental Research and the Management of Conflicting Future Value Orders
Part of Science, Technology and Human Values, p. 237-262, 2019
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Gouverner le «long terme».: La production bureaucratique des futurs en France
Part of Government et action publique, 2015
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Part of History and Technology, p. 104-122, 2014
- DOI for Governing the future: science, policy and public participation in the construction of the long term in the Netherlands and Sweden
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The great future debate and the struggle for the world
Part of American Historical Review, p. 1411-1430, 2012
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Part of Histoire@politique, p. 161-175, 2011
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Images of Sweden and the Nordic countries.: Special issue
Part of Scandinavian Journal of History, p. 219-228, 2009
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Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries
Part of Scandinavian Journal of History: Images of Sweden and the Nordic Countries, p. 219-228, 2009
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Nordic nostalgia and Nordic light: The Swedish model as Utopia 1930–2007
Part of Scandinavian Journal of History, p. 229-245, 2009
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Från Brandt och Kreisky till Blair och Brown: Den tredje vägens konstellationer och Sverigebilden
Part of Arbetarhistoria, 2008
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Socialdemokratin, tillväxten och den sociala utslagningen
Part of Industriland : tolv forskare om när Sverige blev modernt, 2008
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Arbete som rättighet eller plikt
Part of Forskning och framsteg, n° 6, p. 24-28, 2007
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The people’s library and the electronic workshop: Comparing Swedish and British social democracy
Part of Politics & Society, p. 431-460, 2006
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Choosing futures : Alva Myrdal and the construction of Swedish futures studies, 1967–1972
Part of International Review of Social History, p. 277-295, 2006
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Produktiv socialpolitik under socialdemokratiet
Part of Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2004
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Mellan tillväxt och trygghet: idélinjer i socialdemokratisk socialpolitik
Part of Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia, p. 1-20, 2001
Articles, review/survey
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Architects of the Mixed Economy: Assar Lindbeck, Ingemar Ståhl, and Gösta Rehn
Part of Modern Intellectual History, p. 947-969, 2024
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Books
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Slaget om framtiden: forskningens roll i konflikten mellan tillväxt och miljö
Santérus Förlag, 2019
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The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination
Oxford University Press, 2018
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The struggle for the long-term in transnational science and politics: Forging the Future
Routledge, 2015
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The Library and the Workshop: Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age
Stanford University Press, 2009
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När framtiden redan hänt: socialdemokratin och folkhemsnostalgin
Ordfront, 2009
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Between Growth and Security: Swedish Social Democracy from a Strong Society to a Third Way
Manchester University Press, 2006
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Mellan tillväxt och trygghet: Idelinjer i socialdemokratisk politik under efterkrigstiden
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2003
Chapters in book
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Part of The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge, p. 207-230, Routledge, 2025
- DOI for Thinking the Human System: The Application of Humanities and Social Science Reasoning to Societal Problems
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Bortom vänstervind och högervåg
Part of Marknadens tid, p. 11-32, Nordic Academic Press, 2023
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Daniel Bell, Social Forecaster
Part of Defining the Age, p. 242-263, Columbia University Press, 2022
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Part of The Decisionist Imagination:, p. 250-268, Berghahn Books, 2018
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Expectations, claims, interests and the making of future Arctic territory
Part of Uncertain futures:, p. 83-103, Oxford University Press, 2018
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The multiple directions of social progress: Ways Forward
Part of Rethinking society for the 21st century, p. 815-846, Cambridge University Press, 2018
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States and future governance: in eds. (2017).
Part of Reconfiguring European states in crisis, p. 298-313, Oxford University Press, 2017
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Futures of Mankind: The emergence of the global future
Part of The politics of globality since 1945, p. 106-125, Routledge, 2016
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Towards a new history of the future
Part of The struggle for the long-term in transnational science and politics, p. 3-15, Routledge, 2015
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Futures studies and the radical imagination
Part of The struggle for the long-term in transnational science and politics, p. 16-32, Routledge, 2015
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Losing social democracy: Reflections on a paradigmatic case
Part of European social democracy during the global economic crisis:, p. 116-131, Manchester University Press, 2014
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Part of The future of European social democracy, p. 166-176, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Solidarity or competition. Creating the European Knowledge Society
Part of European solidarities, P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2007
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The knowledge economy as utopia
Part of Exploring the utopian impulse, p. 357-375, Peter Lang, 2007
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Baklänges in i framtiden, om folkhemsnostalgi och historiska framtidsvisioner
Part of Den självstyrande medborgaren?, p. 29-49, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2007
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Reflections on the meaning of the Social and Liberal Model
Part of Social Europe, p. 133-145, European Research Forum at London Metropolitian University, 2006
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Kunskap som kritik: Ett perspektiv på det sena 1960-talets och 1980-talets kritik av den starka stat
Part of Bortom den starka statens politik?, p. 24-42, SNS förlag, 2005
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Part of Välfärdens skräpvind, Studentlitteratur/Institutet för samtidshistoria, Stockholm, 2005
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Part of A European Social Citizenship?, p. 69-88, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2004
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Alvas framtider: Alva Myrdal och svenska framtidsstudier 1967-1972
Part of Historia - en väg till framtiden?, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2003
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Kosta sociala reformer pengar?: Nedslag i 1900-talets diskussion om produktiv socialpolitik
Part of Befolkning och välfärd, p. 57-79, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2002
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
Conference proceedings (editor)
Reports
Other
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Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology
Part of Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, p. 417-422, 2024
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”Humans of the world unite. Review of Or Rosenboim’s The Emergence of Globalism”
Part of Political quarterly (London. 1930. Print), p. 512-514, 2018
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Part of Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, p. 429-434, 2018
- DOI for "That Very Big Computer Known as Human Civilisation": [Review of:] Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow (Random House, London, 2017)
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