229 research outputs found
Håller Anders Borg på att upprepa 80-talets misstag?
No full textAnders Borgs kamp mot hushållens skulder riskerar att bli lika tandlös som den mot bankbonusarna. Finansministern har nyligen kommit ut som förespråkare av amorteringskrav med mera. Det låter skarpt och tydligt, men han menar att det tidigast kan genomföras om ett till två år. Samtidigt säger han att svensk ekonomi är utsatt för stora risker på kort sikt. Varför vänta ett par timmar med att ringa efter brandkåren om huset brinner, skriver Sandro Scocco och Magnus Lindmark.</p
Induction machine at unity power factor with rotating power electronic converter
No full textA new configuration for the self-excitation of the induction machine invented by Magnus Lindmark is presented. The power electronic converter using solid state switches is connected to the rotor while the stator is directly connected to the grid. Using appropriate control, the reactive power consumed by the motor can be generated in the rotor resulting in unity power factor operation. The rotor connected power electronic converter is also used for constant speed operation of the induction machine at variable torque.</p
Unintentional Climate Policy: Swedish experiences of carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth 1950-2005
No full textThis paper examines the development of carbon dioxide emissions in Sweden, especiallyn with a focus on the absolute reductions during the post-war period, during the 1970s and 1980s. The paper shows that the largest reductions were achieved before the introduction of an active climate policy in 1991. This was in turn the result of significant improvements in energy efficiency and energy conversion, while structural changes were considerably less important. One reason behind this decoupling process may be that the active energy policy put pressure on households and industries to conserve energy and to substitute from oil to electricity and biofuels. The process was substantially reinforced by the development of world oil prices in combination with the development of domestic electricity prices, where nuclear power seems to have played an important role.Sweden; climate policy; economic growth; carbon dioxide reduction; carbon tax
Rethinking the Environmental State: An Economic History of the Swedish Environmental Kuznets Curve for Carbon
No full textIt is important to recognize that macroeconomic conditions and dynamics were important for the design of Swedish energy policy and that the transformation pressure on the Swedish energy system was exceptionally high by international comparison. Historic decisions, which were governed by a rationality fostered by the circumstances in the 1940s and early 1950s, came to form important structures which affected the outcome of the energy policy in the 1970s and 1980s. The perhaps most striking consequence of this was the emergence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve for carbon with few international counterparts. The transformative change of the Swedish energy system included several steps, which in retrospect seem accidental. The challenge today is to copy the sequence, while at the same time realizing that the structures and historical circumstances that brought about a sequence that was historically determined and of a contingent nature cannot easily serve as a 'copy and paste' learning example.</p
Greening the national accounts
No full textThis chapter presents reconstructions of historical environmental accounts for Sweden for the period after 1970 with the purpose of both presenting key methodological issues pertaining to historical environmental accounting and demonstrating how historical series can be used for analysis of long-term economic and environmental change. The chapter also demonstrates how historical environmental accounts may be created by piecing together various data sources. Main empirical findings are that Swedish carbon emissions have decreased at approximately the discount rate suggested by William Nordhaus and that Environmental Protection Expenditures since 1972 have nearly been constant as a share of GDP, suggesting that environmental expenditure may have Cobb-Douglass characteristics.</p
The past, present and future of Nordic environmental economic history
No full textThis article traces the development of environmental economic history focusing on the Nordic countries over the past decades. In doing so, a definition of environmental economic history is presented to distinguish the field of research from traditional economic history as well as environmental history. As shown, the field developed both in relation to environmental economics and by providing historical perspectives to the current environmental debate. The article concludes that it is important for students in the field to integrate theoretically rooted environmental perspectives into the traditional economic historical research
Operahøgskolens nyttårskonsert
No full textProgram. Operaforestilling vist 12. januar 2017 på Seilduken HovedsceneMedvirkende: Renate Ekerhovd, sopran; Eirin Kvamo Løvstad, sopran; Victoria Randem, sopran; Henriette Stabell Johnson, sopran; Therese Thylin Lindmark, mezzo-sopran og konfransier; Jørgen Magnus Haslum, baryton; Per Kristian Ruud-Enggrav, tenor (Barratt Due); Andreas Skei, baryton. Gãbor Nagy, piano. Oslo Fagottko
Askepott
No full textOperahøgskolens avgangsforestilling for årsstudium og bachelor, - og samtidig en del av masterproduksjonene til Signe Gerda Landfald på teater scenografi.
Sang: Victoria Randem, Tunde Gaspar (gjest), Therese Thylin Lindmark, Renate Ekerhovd, Eirin Kvamo Løvstad, Henriette Stabell Johnson, Jørgen Magnus Haslum
Regi: Jon Tombre; Kostymer: Matilda Söderling (MA design avgg.); koreografi: Øystein S. Johansen.
Foto: Stephen Hutto
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