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Annual report from mistra financial systems

04 May 2017
The annual report of Mistra Financial System is here! Mistra Financial Systems, MFS, is a research program exploring how financial systems better can work for social and environmental sustainability. It´s funded by Mistra and hosted by Misum at Stockholm School of Economics.

"How Wall Street Once Killed the U.S. Solar Industry"

18 April 2017
Misum´s Max Jerneck is interviewed in The Atlantic about his new paper on how financialization harms the climate. The paper was published March 29 in Science Advances. 

New Misum research for UN on gender data

05 April 2017
NEW PAPER PUBLISHED: Misum researcher Erik Wetter is part of the Flowminder team commissioned by the UN Foundation to develop and evaluate new geospatial data sources and computational methods. This academic work is published separately as "Exploring the high-resolution mapping of gender disaggregated development indicators" in the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

new paper published: HOW FINANCIALIZATION HINDERED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARLY SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRY

30 March 2017
NEW PAPER PUBLISHED: Today’s financialized economy is ill-suited to develop technologies to replace fossil fuels. This is what Max Jerneck finds in his study of the early American solar energy industry. His paper on how financialization harms the climate was published today 2017-03-29 in Science Advances, the online offshoot of Science. Below is an interview Max Jerneck, researcher at Misum. 

The Misum Annual Report for 2016 is here

28 March 2017
We had a busy year, so we would like you to read all about it.

Nya bolagstrenden: tackla globala problem

20 March 2017
Misums Lin Lerpold intervjuad i Dagens Industri Digital söndagen den 19 mars 2017.

“Producing Consumers: Agencing and Concerning Consumers to Do Green in Everyday Food Practices”

13 March 2017
Welcome to Ingrid Stigzelius´ dissertation defence on March 31 at 1.15 pm. Ingrid will defend her Ph.D dissertation entitled “Producing Consumers: Agencing and Concerning Consumers to Do Green in Everyday Food Practices” in room KAW.

"Svanen investment ecolabelling needs focus"

01 March 2017
Researchers from the Mistra Financial Systems program (hosted by Misum, Stockholm School of Economics) have provided a public comment on Svanen´s proposal for ecolabelling of Nordic investment funds.

SSE Researcher Erik Wetter invited by Angela Merkel

20 February 2017
Erik Wetter, researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (MISUM) at Stockholm School of Economics, is one of two people from Sweden that have been invited to participate in the Third International German Forum in Berlin.

Post-Doc Position for research on Shared Value and Corporate-Community Sustainability

08 February 2017
Misum invites engaged scholars to apply for a Post-Doc position in the area of corporate strategy, community engagement and social impact.