Professor Torsten Persson FBA
The political economics of economic policy; applications to inequality & growth, public debt, central-bank independence, constitutions, development, state capacity, violent conflict & reforms of economic & political institutions.
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Economics, Politics
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
- Website
- http://people.su.se/~tpers/
Current post
Torsten and Ragnar Soderberg Chair in Economic Sciences, Stockholm University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Philippe Aghion FBA
The economics of innovation, organizations and growth: theory, empirics and policy implications
Professor Vernon Henderson FBA
The economics of urbanisation, including the evolutions of city systems and the built environment within cities, as related to institutional structures, with a current focus on China and sub-Saharan Africa
