Jan Jörnmark

Jan Jörnmark (born January 21, 1959 in Karlstad , Värmland County ) is a Swedish economic historian , photographer and publicist .

life and work

Jörnmark taught economic history as a lecturer at the Chalmers University of Technology and the Gothenburg University of Commerce and published on the subject of globalization , such as the decline of the European coal and steel industry .

Since 2004 he has been documenting modern ruins such as disused factories , abandoned houses , former amusement parks , blown dams , abandoned rural inns , former holiday villages, former gasometers .

In his website and his two books entitled Övergivna platser ( Eng .: Abandoned Places ) he researched the rise and fall of 30 places. The Swedish television produced a series with him as a guide to such places. He is part of the Urban Exploration movement that emerged in cities like Detroit , but also explains the economic background.

His website creative destruction broadens the view to other parts of Europe. The title quotes Joseph Schumpeter , who saw the inexorable decline of companies , communities and entire branches of the economy in adapting too slowly to the realities of world trade . Through his work, he criticizes the theory of neoliberals like Milton Friedman , which sees the dismantling of interventions in the market as the solution to greater prosperity for all.

Web links

• Article on einestages.spiegel.de
• Personal homepage (English / Swedish)
• creativedestruction.se (engl.)