12th September 2012
Ministry of Education and Culture awarded professor Markku Kuisma for his life’s work as an economic and business historian. Professor Kuisma has devoded his research career in studying business and society and his research themes cover a wide range of issues relating with money, politics and power: enterprise and bank history, the relationship between politics and business and the elite within it, international cartels as well as state formation in pre-modern times.
Markku Kuisma is known for his many books — Kylmä sota, kuuma öljy. Neste, Suomi ja kaksi Eurooppaa 1948–1979 ( 1997), Suomen poliittinen taloushistoria 1000–2000 (2009), Rosvoparonien paluu. Raha ja valta Suomen historiassa (2010) and Sodasta syntynyt. Itsenäisen Suomen synty Sarajevon laukauksista Tarton rauhaan 1914−1920 (2010), to mention few. Interlocks between politics, the wider society and the business enterprises play a key role in his interpretation explaining how the course of history has shaped the enterprises as well as the Finnish state. The way in which professor Kuisma writes benefits both the academic and non-academic reader.
Life’s Work award is granted annually by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
More information from the website of Ministry of Culture and Education (in Finnish)