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 Janet Currie FBA
Economics of investing in children; socioeconomic differences in health and access to care, environmental threats, mental health, short and longer-run impacts of conditions in pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence
Professor Thomas Sargent FBA
Macroeconomic decision making under risk & uncertainty; monetary history; macroeconomics
