Students

For Stockholm-based students, the current 'yellow book' with course readings should be available as an electronic document with book reviews and articles linked for downloading off the web. Web publication in English of the best assignments with monetary prizes each term would also help put the institution on the map. A secondary layer of linked documents would then develop.

Allan Larsson's lectures should be available as 'radio programmes' in Swedish and English.

The introductory course in economic history should be re-focussed as a 'global university distance learning course' in political economy. So much the better if this can a joint venture with the Baltic University and with American universities with a strong Scandinavian programme.

The introductory course should be developed as the first stage of a Baltic University web-ring. Stockholm would pioneer the first link in the ring and provide 'development aid' to Gdansk, St Petersberg, Riga etc. to enable them to join the web-ring with programmes modelled on the Stockholm experience over the next five years. Visby in VT 2000 could provide a pilot scheme.

Comparative research at other Baltic 'economic history electronic research centres' would grow out of this programme with students carrying out 'web-top research' initially but then becoming involved in scholarly exchange as their knowledge and competence increases.

Development of the web facilities at the institution itself would also be desirable allowing it to become a centre for 'public political economy research' through links to 'personal, family and clan research projects by non-academic researchers. This could also have the advantage of opening up new sources of historical data.

Friday 4th June 1999