Rasmus Fleischer

Rasmus Fleischer
Rasmus Fleischer in 2021
Born (1978-04-19) 19 April 1978 (age 46)
Halmstad, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Occupation(s)Historian
Essayist
Musician
Known forPiratbyrån

Rasmus Fleischer (born 19 April 1978 in Halmstad) is a Swedish historian, essayist and musician. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 2012 with a dissertation that was also published as a book of 640 pages: "The political economy of music: Legislation, sound media and the defence of live music, 1925–2000".[1]

He is a researcher at the department of economic history, Stockholm University, while continuing to also publishing non-academic articles and books. Since 2004 he has been running the blog Copyriot.[2] He is a frequent speaker at transmediale,[3] addressing topics ranging from "the automation of rave"[4] and "how money is failing"[5] to questions about contemporary fascism[6] and the problems of speaking about "internet freedom".[7]

He was part of a transdisciplinary team of researchers investigating the music streaming company Spotify and co-authored the book "Spotify Teardown" (MIT Press, 2019).[8] as well as another book on Spotify, published in Swedish and Danish.[9][10]

Between 2019 and 2023 he worked together with another economic historian, Daniel Berg, in a research project on the history of economic statistics, funded by the Swedish Research Council: "Valuations of quality in the Consumer Price Index and its significance for social and economic history".[11] The main findings of this research was published in late 2023 as a book titled Varors värde.[12]

  1. ^ "Rasmus Fleischer » The political economy of music – English summary of Ph.D. thesis". Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  2. ^ "COPYRIOT - Multiplication can produce powerful numbers". Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. ^ Transmediale: Rasmus Fleischer
  4. ^ The next step in the automation of rave? (Transcript from a workshop at Transmediale)
  5. ^ How money is failing
  6. ^ From cyber-libertarianism to national-populism (The many faces of fascism, part 1)
  7. ^ Some thoughts about the idea of “internet freedom” in times of counter-revolution
  8. ^ "MIT Press: Spotify Teardown Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music".
  9. ^ Mondial: Den svenska enhörningen
  10. ^ Gaffa.dk: Tankevækkende bog om Spotifys historie
  11. ^ "Valuations of quality in the Consumer Price Index and its significance for social and economic history".
  12. ^ "Daidalos: Varors värde. Kvalitetsvärderingar i konsumentprisindex under 1900-talet".