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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. 

Det vanligaste p-pillret i Sverige påverkar kvinnors livskvalitet negativt men ökar inte de depressiva symtomen. Det visar en stor studie vid Karolinska Institutet i samarbete med Handelshögskolan i Stockholm som publiceras i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Fertility and Sterility.

Last Friday we witnessed first hand that no place is safe. A few blocks from the Stockholm School of Economics, terror, once again, showed its ugly face. My thoughts go out to the victims and their families during these difficult times.

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.

by Chloé Le Coq (with Henrik Orzen and Sebastian Schwenen), published in the Journal of Regulatory Economics

The SEFORÏS project has created an online library with latest research papers, policy briefs, presentations and online course on social entrepreneurship.

Erik Meyersson, Assistant professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, explains to Theo Leggett, BBC Business News Reporter, how, at the height of the Cold War, the German Democratic Republic - with the help of a network of thousands well-placed human assets - was able to produce cheap copies of one of IBM's most advanced computers.

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.