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Before the ‘European Miracles’. Four Essays on Swedish Preconditions for Conquest, Growth, and Voice
(2005)Abstract Before the ‘European Miracles’. Four Essays on Swedish Preconditions for Conquest, Growth, and Voice. (Publications of the Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg ... -
Bolagsrevisorn - En studie av revisionsverksamhet under sent 1800-tal och tidigt 1900-tal. Från frivillighet till lagreglering och professionalisering.
(2010-03-16)The development of Swedish auditing, in light of the increase in legislation of limited liability companies and the international history of audit at the turn of the 20th century, is investigated. An important factor is ... -
A decisive intelligence failure? British intelligence on Soviet war potential and the 1939 Anglo-French-Soviet alliance that never was
(2008-03-06)In 1939 the British Government tried to assess Soviet war potential in order to know more about their potential ally, as part of the negotiations concerning an Anglo-French-Soviet alliance. British assessments of Soviet ... -
Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River - A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve 1895-2000
(2011-10)Because of a growing population and industrialization, total pollution levels in many water-courses around the world have increased considerably for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the last few decades, however, ... -
Farmers and the domestic iron market
(2004)The Swedish case 1750-1870 in a European context – results from the thesis “Age of iron. The use and consumption of iron and iron products in rural Sweden 1750-1870.” During the agrarian revolution farmers and the rural ... -
Flexibility and protectionism. Swedish trade in sugar during the early modern era
(2006)Sugar was of the utmost importance for the development of a transatlantic trade during the early modern era. This working paper explores the impact of institutions and institutional changes of the colonial trade in sugar ... -
From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th centuries
(2007-11-12)This paper will focus upon the Swedish consumption of sugar, a product that illustrates the shift from being a luxury to being a mass-consumed commodity. Very little attention has been paid to the commodity of sugar by ... -
Globalisation, inequality and Swedish catch up in the late nineteenth century. Williamson’s real wage comparisons under scrutiny
(2005)The idea of rapid factor price convergence in the latter half of the nineteenth century stems from an article from 1995 by Jeffrey Williamson. That article presented real wage comparisons of unskilled urban workers for ... -
Internet, IT-boomen och reklambranschen under andra hälften av nittiotalet - Transkript av ett vittnesseminarium på ABF-huset i Stockholm den 17 februari 2010.
(2011-09)This publication is a commented transcript of a witness seminar in February 2010 within the research project ”The Swedish digital wonder in the advertising industry”. The purpose of the seminar, which was open to the public, ... -
Järnets tid. Den svenska landsbygdsbefolkningens järninnehav och järnkonsumtion 1750-1870
(2003)Abstract The preeindustrial possession and consumption of iron in rural Sweden 1750- 1870. (Publications of the Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg university no 89) ISSN ... -
Kartellen som sprängdes. Svensk bryggeriindustri under institutionell och strukturell omvandling 1945–1975
(2006)Kartellen som sprängdes. The Swedish brewing industry during institutional and structural change 1945 – 1975. (Publications of the Department of Economic history, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, ... -
Konsten att skapa pengar. Aktiebolagens genombrott och finansiell modernisering kring sekelskiftet 1900
(2006)The joint-stock companies with limited liability have been argued to encourage large-scale risky investments through the structure of residual claims and, at the same time, to minimize the conflict between utility maximization ... -
Levnadsstandarden speglad i bouppteckningar : En undersökning av två metoder att använda svenska bouppteckningar för en levnadsstandardsundersökning samt en internationell
(2007-11-08)The standard of living in the pre-industrial world is an interesting but challenging subject. No single method alone can solve the problem. In order to grasp the standard of living several methods must be used, and work ... -
Möten med marknaden. Tre svenska fackförbunds agerande under perioden 1945-1976
(2002)This is a study of how trade unions act when they are confronted with the consequences of innovations in their own sector of the economy. The framework in which this is studied, basically consists of Mancur Olson's ... -
Omvälvningarnas tid: Handelshuset Ekman i Göteborg på en europeisk kreditmarknad 1790–1820
(2011-01-26)The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to chart and analyze the flow of payments and credits to and from Gothenburg for the period 1790−1820, with a special interest in the transactions involving The Merchant House ... -
The price of sugar in Sweden : Data, source & methods
(2007-11-08)This paper presents a new price series for sugar in Sweden, or more exactly Stockholm, in a long-term perspective (1624–1900). Prior to this, no price data has been available from Sweden for this commodity. The paper is ... -
Protectionism, agricultural prices and relative factor incomes: Sweden’s wage-rental ratio, 1877-1926
(2006)Trends in wage-rental ratios have figured prominently in the recent literature on factor price convergence and globalisation in the late nineteenth century. In that literature Sweden has been described as a free trade ... -
Samhävd och rågång. Om egendomsrelationer, ägoskiften och marknadsintegration i en värmländsk skogsbygd 1630-1750.
(2002)THY NEIGHBOURS PROPERTY. Property Relations, Enclosures and Market Integration in a Forest District of Central Sweden 1630-1750. (Publications of the Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Commercial Law, ...