Department of Economic History / Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen (-2012): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Thy neighbour’s property. Communal property rights and institutional change in an iron producing forest district of Sweden 1630-1750
(2005)This paper focuses on the development of property rights to village com-mons, as they appear in the court rolls of a legal district in Sweden in the late 17th and the early 18th century. A development of agrarian property ... -
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, ... -
Tariff protection in Sweden 1885–1914
(2005)This paper presents disaggregated estimates of nominal and effective rates of tariff protection for Sweden 1885–1914. In a methodological part of the article I argue that the proper way to measure tariff protection is an ...