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My new book  Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory is now published and available as soft cover or ebook from Palgrave Macmillan/Springer. 

Free addendum chapter with deeper theoretical expositions: Paleoeconomics: A Conceptual Framework

News: 

• Floods, Droughts, and Environmental Circumscription in Early State Development: The Case of Ancient Egypt (with Laura Mayoral) Journal of Economic Growth 30: 271-305 (May, 2025)

• Academic talks during 2025: ASSA, San Francisco, Jan 5; Third Bolzano Workshop in Historical Economics, Jan 25; Dep Economic History, Lund University, Feb 12; Dep Econ, Umeå University, March 19; World Economic History Congress in Lund, July 30.

• Revised working paper: The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses: Weather Shocks and Maya Monument Construction (with Melissa Rubio and Christian Isendahl) (May, 2025)

• New book chapter Sustainable Economic Growth: A Critical Assessment of Target 8.1 (with Pelle Ahlerup), chap 2 in Dellve et al (2025) Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Economic Growth and Decent Work For All, London: Routledge. (March, 2025)

• Media: Interview in podcast Our Long Walk about Paleoeconomics and other research (Feb, 2025); Interview in EFN about German election (in Swedish) (Feb, 2025); Interviews in Vetenskapsradion Episode 1 and Episode 2 about Göbekli Tepe and my book (Jan, 2025); SVT interview about Nobel prize (Dec, 2024); Personal portrait in GU Journalen

• Hosting visit and lecture by Nobel laureate Simon Johnson in Gothenburg (Dec. 2024)

• Revised working paper Conditional Persistence: Historical Disease Exposure and Government Response to COVID-19 (with Annika Lindskog) (Nov, 2024)

• Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel (with Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya) Journal of Political Economy 132(11) (replication) (Oct, 2024)