Professor Marlene Behrmann of the University of Pittsburgh and Professor Janet Currie of Yale University have been appointed honorary doctors of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Since the 1980s, Denmark has gone from being one of Europe’s economically weakest countries to having some of the world’s strongest external and public finances. A new book by Per Callesen, a researcher at the Department of Economics and former governor of Danmarks Nationalbank, examines how things could go so wrong and why the turnaround  succeeded.