Karl Gunnar Persson Copenhagen University List of published articles, books, and chapters in edited volumes and selected working papers. Chapters in books and articles in bold. Monographs and edited books in bold italic. Journal titles in italic. Book reviews not included. Chronological order. 1 Studier över arbetarklassen i Sverige 1930-1970. Licentiat-thesis, University of Lund, 1972. 2 Invandrarbarnen i skolan, Sociologisk Forskning, nr. 1973:4, pp.38-42. 3 Invandring, löner och klasstruktur, Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörrelsens historia, 11973:4, pp. 53-66. 4 Politiska och ekonomiska aspekter på förändringar i arbetarklassens reproduktion under 1900-talet, in Arbete, kapital och stat, Stockholm: Rabén och Sjögren, 1974, pp. 255-61. 5 Social Mobility in Sweden 1925-1945, Economy and History, Vol. 17, 1974, pp. 82-93. 6 Is Social Mobility Increasing? Acta Sociologica, Vol. 17, 1975:4, pp. 429-32. 7 Mobility Patterns and Mobility Indices, Acta Sociologica, Vol. 19, 1976:4, pp. 391-93. 8 Tendenser i arbetslösheten och i sysselsättningsteorin, in Fordeling, indkomstpolitik og arbejdsløshed i Norden, Roskilde: Roskilde Uniuversitetsforlag, 1976, pp. 222-39.
9 Arbejdsløshed, betalingsbalance og økonomisk politik, Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 1976. Co-author. 10 Lønpolitik og arbejdsløshed, Juristen og Økonomen, 28/1976 and 5/1977, pp. 453-62 and 23. Co-author. 11 Pure Mobility and Pure Exchange Mobility, Quality & Quantity, Vol. 11, 1977, pp. 73-82. 12 Devalvering eller importreglering, Ekonomisk Debatt, 1977:7, pp. 501-03. 13 School Achievement of Immigrant Children: The Impact of Class and Nationality, International Migration, Vol. 16, 1978:1, pp. 23-28. 14 Humankapital, olikhet och ideologi, Nordisk Tidskrift för Politisk Ekonomi, 1978:6, pp. 20-43. 15 Essays on Mobility and Social Reproduction, Kristianstad: Arkiv, 1978. 16 Den svenska arbetarklassens förändrade sammansättning och de borgerliga arbetarväljarna, Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia, 1978:13-14, pp.55-74. 17 Socialpolitiken, marknaden och marxismen, Zenit, 1978:5, pp. 18-27. 18 Tendenser i tjugotalets arbetslöshet, Historisk Tidskrift, 1979, pp. 460-66. 19 Till socialpolitikens försvar, Zenit, 1980:2, pp. 41-48. 20 Skall sjukvården privatiseras? Ekonomisk Debatt 1980:4, pp. 284-87.
21 Conceptual Colonialism: Progress or Retrogression? (Issues in Labour Economics), Economy & History, Vol. 23, 1980:2, pp. 133-51. 22 Allokeringsprocesser på arbejdsmarkedet, i H. Mørkeberg & A. Rosdahl, Marked, statslig politik og velfærdsmæssige konsekvenser, Copenhagen: Teknisk Forlag, 1982, 63-89. 23 Anti-Friedman, Zenit,1982:4, pp. 40-53. 24 Historisk materialism, stordriftsfördelar och klassernas uppkomst, Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia,1982:4, pp. 61-73. 25 Offentlig sektor och statliga företag, Historisk Tidskrift, 1983:2, pp. 209-14. 26 Karisma, fripassagerare och kollektiv handling, Sociologisk Forskning, 1984:2, pp. 3-11. 27 Consumption, Labour and Leisure in the Late Middle Ages, in Manger et Boire au Moyen Age, Vol. 1, Nice: Les Belles Lettres, 1984, pp. 211-23. 28 Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe, A Unified Approach to the (several) Hundred Pages War, in Økonomiske Essays, Copenhagen: Akademisk forlag, 1984. 29 A Theory of the Welfare State, Økonomisk Institut, 146, 1986. 30 The Scandinavian Welfare State: Anatomy, Logic and Some Problems, Sticerd/London School of Economics Welfare State Programme Publications No. 7, 1986, also in K.G. Persson (ed.), The Economic Development of Denmark and Norway. Aldershot: E. Elgar, 1993.
31 Udstødning - tilstand eller proces i I..Hansen og.n. Mærkedahl (eds): Udstødning og udstødningsmekanismer, Copenhagen: Socialforskningsinstituttet, 1987. 32 Growth and Stagnation of the European Medieval Economy, Sticerd/London School of Economics Working Papers in Economics, 1987. With P. Skott 33 Skrå och marknad, in Ekonomisk-historiska vingslag. Festskrift till Lennart Jörberg och Gunnar Fridlizius, Lund: Studentlitteratur 1987, pp. 164-74. 34 Aggregate Output and labour Productivity in English Agriculture 1688-1801. A Novel Approach and Comforting New Results. Discussion Papers from the Institute of Economics, No. 89-06, 1989. 35 Preindustrial Economic Growth. Social Organization and Technological Progress in Europe, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. 36 Reflexioner kring individualismens framväxt, in Festskrift for Svend Aage Hansen, Økonomi & Politik, 1989:2, pp. 101-12. 37 Economic Growth in Medieval Europe. Models and Estimations, in Samhällsvetenskap, ekonomi och historia. Festskrift till Lars Herlitz Gothenburg: Daidalos, 1989, pp.223-36. 38 Landsbygden i stadens spegel - lite toscansk cliometrik, in Vid pass 8000 rutor. Festskrift till Gunnar Sandin. Lund, 1990, pp. 91-97. 39 Labour Productivity in the Medieval Economy: The Case of Tuscany and the Low Countries, in Campbell, B. and Overton, M. (eds), Land, Labour and Livestock, Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991, pp.124-43. Also in Discussion Papers from the Institute of Economics, No. 90-01, 1990. 40 Was Feudalism Inevitable? Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1991:1, pp. 68-76.
41 The Never Ending Controversy: Agrarian and Industrial Productivity Growth in Britain 1750-1860. Discussion Papers from the Institute of Economics, No. 91-104, 1991. 42 A Simple Method for the Measurement of Total Factor Productivity in Poorly Documented Economies, Nationaløkonomisk tidskrift, 1992:130, pp. 401-406. 43 The Inevitability of Feudalism - A Reply. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1992:2, pp. 44-6. 44 Was there a Productivity Gap between Fourteenth Century Italy and England? Economic History Review, Vol. 46:1, February 1993, pp. 105-114. Also in Discussion Papers from the Institute of Economics, No. 92-11, 1992. 45 On Corn, Turgot and Elasticities. The Case for Deregulation of Grain Markets in 18th Century France. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1993:1, pp. 37-50. 46 Total Factor Productivity Growth in English Agriculture, 1250-1450, in Maddison, A. och van der Wee, H. (eds) Economic Growth and Structural Change, Milano:IEHA, 1994. Also in Discussion Papers from the Institute of Economics, No. 93-11, 1993. 47 The Seven Lean Years, Elasticity Traps, and Intervention in Grain Markets in Pre- Industrial Europe. Economic History Review, Vol. XLIX, No.4, November 1996, pp.692-714. Also as Working Papers in Economic History, No.178, Australian National University. 48 Grain Storage in Early Modern Europe, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 59, No. 3, September 1999, pp.762-72. With Mette Ejrnæs. 49 Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900, Integration and Deregulation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
50 Market Integration and Transport Costs in France 1825-1903: A Threshold Error Correction Approach to the Law of One Price. Explorations in Economic History, 37, 2000, pp. 149-73. With Mette Ejrnæs. 51 Risk Management in Agriculture. in J. Mokyr (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 52 The Force of Tradition. In P.Hudson (ed.) Living Economic and social History, Economic History Association 75th Anniversary Commemorative Essay Collection, Bristol, 2001. 53 Mind the Gap. Transport Costs and Price Convergence in the 19 th Century Atlantic Economy, Discussion Papers from the Institute of Economics, No. 02-02, 2002. 54 Mind the Gap. Transport Costs and Price Convergence in the 19 th Century Atlantic Economy, European Review of Economic History, 8(2) pp. 2004. 55 Market integration and convergence in the world wheat market 1800-2000 (with Giovanni Federico), in T. Hatton, K. O Rourke and A. Taylor (eds.) New comparative economic History. Essays in honour of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 56 Global markets in Encyclopaedia of Globalization, London and New York: Routledge 2007. 57 Feeding the British. Convergence and efficiency in 19 th century grain trade (with M. Ejrnæs and S. Rich), Economic History Review, 61 (1), pp. 140-171, 2008. 58 The Malthus delusion in European Review of Economic History,12 (2), pp. 165-183, 2008. 59 An economic history of Europe, 600-2000:Knowledge, institutions and growth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010. 60 The gains from improved market efficiency: Trade before and after the transatlantic telegraph, forthcoming in European Review of Economic History.
Edited volumes with introduction USA mellem två inbördeskrig, Essäer i USA's moderna historia, Lund: Cavefors, 1972. Tillväxt och stagnation i modern kapitalism, (Selected works by Michael Kalecki) Lund: Cavefors, 1975. The Economic Development of Denmark and Norway since 1870, Aldershot: Ed. Elgar, 1993. (Introduction, one chapter, cf. 30)