Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Professor, Ph.D., History of Ideas, Aarhus University. New books out: In Defence of Economic and Social Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, November 2025), Designing Global Economic Equality (Oxford University Press, March 2026 (online January 2026)); Vi skyller global ulighed ned med champagne og østers (Aarhus University Press, February 2026). Formerly Principal Investigator of ‘An Intellectual History of Global Inequality, 1960-2015’; from 2021-2022 Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship. Research interests include economic, political and legal intellectual history, American history, global history, the role of business in society, UN anti-poverty policies and global inequality. I have published Progressive Business: An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society (with Oxford U.P.). Awarded the Sapere Aude: DFF Research Talent Prize by the Danish Council for Independent Research (2015), and Sapere Aude: DFF Research Leader (2018). Have taught since 2006, in fields such as intellectual history methodology, humanistic organizational and management theory, economic and political sociology, history of economic thought, history of social thought, global intellectual history, and key thinkers in sociology. For public talks (foredrag), press, etc. please contact me at [email protected].
Principal Investigator of ‘An Intellectual History of Global Inequality, 1960-2015’
Research project on business, human rights and poverty in an unequal, global world, ca. 1970-present day. Funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research.