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| Professor Karl Gunnar Persson |
This morning I was reached by the sad news that professor
Karl Gunnar Persson has left us. He was one of the founders of the European Historical
Economics Society, its first president and the first editor of the European
Review of Economic History.
More importantly Karl Gunnar Persson was one of the warmest
and kindest professors I have ever met. He combined friendliness with intelligence and humour. He was always helpful to his younger colleagues and
inspired us by showing his passion for economic history. His work on
economic history included various aspects of market integration, trade and
long-run growth. In his latest work he suggested a new approach to analyse
income growth in pre-industrial Britain by changes in occupational structure.
Karl Gunnar recently updated his leading text book on the
Economic History of Europe 600 to the present. The analysis was sharp and
elegant, as in all of Karl Gunnar's work.
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| Karl Gunnar Persson (right) at the EHES conference in Pisa 2015. |
I was in contact with
Karl Gunnar just some week ago when I asked him whether he would like to write
something about the 100th working paper being published in the EHES
working paper series. As usual, Karl Gunnar was quick to respond and had
produced a witty and intelligent text in no time at all. Read his blog post here.
I am certain that Karl Gunnar will be
greatly missed by the members of European Historical Economics Society, by his colleagues
and by his many friends. Speaking for myself, I know I certainly will.
This blog post was written by Kerstin Enflo.
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