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’Societal Interests demands that this splendor remains in the hands of the village”: The Issue of Usage and Ownership of Norwegian Mountain Ranges, 1915-1940.

Nya Fest Session 6: There ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough: Ownership, redistribution, and extraction of natural resources, 1800-2000 organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
Around the turn of the twentieth century, state regulatory ambitions and interventions increased in favor of economic nationalism. A key part of this economic nationalism…
Kasper Hage Stjern

 

1930s Swedish financial crisis revisited—central banking and the lender of last resort

Kerstins Rum Session 1: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
During the 1930s financial crisis, Central bank of Sweden (Riksbank) actively intervened the liquidity of banks and the market through a range of monetary operations. The…
Liang Zhao

 

50 Shades of Trade: Swedish Trade Union Interests and the Neoliberal World Trade Regime post 1979

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 2: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
The conclusion of the GATT Tokyo Round in 1979 marked a turning point for the international trade regime. Prior to the Tokyo Round, global trade institutions were shaped by…
Li Eriksdotter Andersson

 

A Nation of Everyman Investors: The Popularisation of Stock Saving in Sweden

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 1: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
The paper discuss the profound transformation of the Swedish savings- and investment culture, from the late 1970s to the 2020s. During this period, financial markets and…
David Larsson Heidenblad

 

A Weakened Society? Plague, Economy and Social Resilience in Early 18th-Century Provence

Källarsalen Session 7: Health crises: plagues and strikes organized by Nicolas Maughan
Outbreaks of bubonic plague initiated by the flea-borne bacterium Yersinia pestis have repeatedly afflicted the Old World since the onset of the “Justinian Plague” in 541…
Nicolas Maughan

 

A Wicked War: War and the Wealth Inequality – Public Debt Nexus.

Nya Fest Session 1: International Trade, Mobility and Development organized by Samuel Marknäs
As war is an eminently political event, the impact of wars on inequality can be seen as an expression of the politics in society. This paper engages with the ongoing…
Diego Castañeda Garza

 

A family affair: financial strategies and intergenerational wealth accumulation among the Swedish nobility (18th and 19th centuries).

Sångsalen Session 7: Families, business and wealth organized by Staffan Albinsson
This paper investigates intergenerational wealth accumulation in a sample of Swedish noble families over a period spanning from the mid-18th century to the early 20th…
Matteo Pompermaier, Martin Dackling

 

A new perspective on innovation and industrialization

Lilla salen Session 2: Consequences of Technological Change organized by Suvi Heikkuri
Industrialization created a new world which was technology, resource and energy intensive and continuously innovative. The industrial transition led to continuous economic…
Kristine Bruland

 

A ‘license to innovate’ – the politics of money at the European Central Bank

Kerstins Rum Session 1: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
Central banking has seemingly undergone tremendous change since the 2008 financial crisis, with the major central banks, such as the Fed, the European Central Bank and the…
Ingrid Hjertaker

 

ANDEANS VS NORDIC. ENERGY AS A DETERMINING FACTOR. 1870-1930

Nya Fest Session 2: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
There are numerous differences that explain the economic trajectory of Nordic and Andean countries (Ducoing & Peres-Cajías, 2021; Ducoing et. al., 2018). However, one…
Cristián Ducoing, Martin Garrido

 

Advertising Birth Control: The contraceptive business and sex education in Sweden 1910–1938

Källarsalen Session 6: The role of educational policy, sex education and contraceptives for gender equality organized by Annika Elwert and Volha Lazuka
This presentation is based on a thesis chapter that analyzes the interplay between Sweden’s contraceptive business and sex education during the early 20th century. Between…
Anna Inez Bergman, Anna Inez Bergman

 

An entangled affair: How merchants incorporated the household into the business, or the case of the Scots-Dutch merchant house Hope & Co., ca 1730–1830

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 6: Pre-Industrial Households and Markets organized by Marcus Falk
Merchant banks have been a continuous source of speculation and conspiracy since their emergence in eleventh-century Italy. This especially applies to the great merchant…
Patrick van der Geest

 

An old remedy for a new problem. How history provides the easiest route to making digital central bank money available to the public in a cash free world

Kerstins Rum Session 2: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
The cryptocurrency frenzy and the diminished importance of notes and coins as means of payment have led to a scrutiny of the future of central bank money. At the core of the…
Lars Fredrik Øksendal

 

Arbetsmarknadens osynliga händer: Icke-offentlig förmedling av arbetare i och från Sverige 1850–1942

Kerstins Rum Session 5: Labour and workers in Sweden since approx. 1850 (in Swedish) organized by Fia Sundevall
När lönearbete som företeelse blev vanligare i Sverige under 1800-talet, och en lönearbetsmarknad etablerades, spelade olika slags förmedlare av arbetare en betydande…
Therese Christoffersson

 

At the roots of the industrial take-off: evidence from the Swedish parishes (1750-1850)

Lilla salen Session 1: Consequences of Technological Change organized by Suvi Heikkuri
The emergence, disappearance and relocation of jobs are inherent features of modern economic growth and a result of technological change and evolving market conditions.…
Anna Missiaia, Fredrik Sandgren

 

Avlönat hushållsarbete i Sverige 1890-1939

Kerstins Rum Session 5: Labour and workers in Sweden since approx. 1850 (in Swedish) organized by Fia Sundevall
Kvinnor i avlönat hushållsarbete var en av Sveriges största kvinnliga yrkesgrupper under sent 1800-tal och tidigt 1900-tal, tills antalet började sjunka runt 1930. Avlönat…
Sofi Vedin

 

Building Socialism on Abandoned Land: The Long-term Impact of Deportations in South-East Poland

Lilla salen Session 7: Historical Perspectives on Migration organized by Jonatan Andersson
This paper examines the impact of forced migration on economic and political development in the short and long term. For the first time, I use data on the ethno-religious…
Oliver Wach

 

Canals and the iron-industry during the early industrialisation era - state-supported growth policies in the making

Sångsalen Session 3: Structured by the State – infrastructure and communication in the era of industrialization organized by Björn Hasselgren and Jan Ottosson
Transportation systems evolve slowly over time. As new transportation and infrastructure technologies become available earlier slower and less capacity strong modes of…
Björn Hasselgren

 

Cartels for building materials as construction foundations for building large corporations

Nya Fest Session 7: Levels of Cartelization: Scandinavian Perspectives on the Role Cartelization in Business Development organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
This paper follows the Swedish construction group Cementa/Skanska and show how the company has grown and increased their market power through cartels on the domestic market…
Malin Dahlström

 

Central bankers and centralized wage bargaining: A different perspective on the rise of neoliberalism in Norway

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 1: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
There is broad agreement about the significance of professional economists and their ideas for the rise of neoliberalism in Western Europe from the 1970s onwards. Central…
Eivind Thomassen

 

Changing values on sexual behaviours in South-East Europe 1995–2020

Källarsalen Session 5: The role of educational policy, sex education and contraceptives for gender equality organized by Annika Elwert and Volha Lazuka
The dissolution of the Yugoslavian state and the formation of independent republics in the beginning of the 1990s, lead to a change in both formal institutions (laws, rules…
Peter Gladoic Håkansson, Dubravka Gladoic Håkansson

 

Coercion through Remuneration in the Swedish Servant Institution

Gustafscenen Session 1: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
The servant institution was one of the most important and wide-spread forms of remunerated labour in northern and western Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early…
Martin Andersson, Carolina Uppenberg

 

Conceptualizing and measuring retirement in historical micro-level data

Lilla salen Session 4: The long road to the welfare state… and beyond: retirement, old-age provision and eldercare in the past and present organized by Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tobias Karlsson
Although universal pension systems may be a thing of the past century, retirement behaviour has a longer history. In this paper, we discuss various ways to conceptualize and…
Tobias Karlsson

 

Consumption patterns and living standards in towns around the Baltic, c. 1540-1860: Probate Evidence from Three Towns in Denmark and Southern Sweden

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 5: Pre-Industrial Households and Markets organized by Marcus Falk
Towns and cities played a crucial role in early modern European economies, as centers of trade, administration and handicrafts. This paper uses probate inventories from…
Marcus Falk, Erik Bengtsson

 

Critique of work and the meaning of retirement in the Swedish FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement c. 2010-2025

Lilla salen Session 3: The long road to the welfare state… and beyond: retirement, old-age provision and eldercare in the past and present organized by Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tobias Karlsson
Over the last decade, proponents of the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement have been increasingly present in the public and media sphere in various…
Charlotte Nilsson

 

David and Goliath? Botswanan elites and negotiated settlements, 1895-1975

Källarsalen Session 3: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
Post-colonial Botswana’s rapid diamond-led economic growth (Hillbom & Bolt, 2018) has seen it catch-up and pull ahead of its Southern African neighbours, whose productive…
Jorich Johann Loubser, Tomás Medina Mora Perez

 

Decentralization and Management Consultants

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 3: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
This paper is a proposition for a future research project on the role of managerial consultants in the decentralization of Swedish public administration. It draws upon the…
Mathias Krusell

 

Destined to the top? Intergenerational wealth transmission and elite persistence in the Caribbean at turbulent times (1760-1914)

Gustafscenen Session 7: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
The transmission of wealth is a matter that has long been central to the debate over inequality and its impact on society. Theoretical models of inequality predict the…
Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Thedoridis and Klas Rönnbäck

 

Det svenska spinnhusets ekonomi, 1724 – 1825

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 5: Pre-Industrial Households and Markets organized by Marcus Falk
Från 1724 till 1825 fanns ett spinn-och rasphus på Långholmen i Stockholm. Spinnhuset var ett fängelse och arbetshus för kvinnor, medan rasphuset var ett fängelse och…
Hedvig Widmalm

 

Development of Artisan Workshops in Southern Sweden, 1840-1890.

Lilla salen Session 1: Consequences of Technological Change organized by Suvi Heikkuri
In this paper, I will analyse how the number and composition of artisan workshops in four Swedish towns changed in the latter half of the 19th century. During this period…
Johanne Arnfred

 

Do women patent differently - the patent system of the GDR

Lilla salen Session 5: Leading Change: Female Pioneers in Patenting and Inventing organized by Youssouf Merouani
In its legacy the GDR is often “praised” for its progress in terms of its policies to promote women, especially in professional life. This research investigates whether this…
Finni Jo Erdmann

 

Drivers of market concentration in the Swedish brewery sector, 1910-1990

Nya Fest Session 7: Levels of Cartelization: Scandinavian Perspectives on the Role Cartelization in Business Development organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
The 20th century generally saw a trend of industrial concentration, and the beer markets were no exception. Indications from the US beer market point towards increased…
Henric Häggqvist

 

Electricity as a skill-biased technology: Evidence from Sweden during early 20th century

Lilla salen Session 2: Consequences of Technological Change organized by Suvi Heikkuri
At the turn of the 20th century, electricity was the new general-purpose technology transforming economies across Europe and North America. Thanks to electricity, industrial…
Suvi Heikkuri, Svante Prado

 

Elite coalitions and industrialization in Africa

Källarsalen Session 2: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
In recent years we have witnessed a renewed interest in analysing the need and capacity for Africa to industrialise (Aryeetey and Moyo 2012, de Vries 2013, McMillan and…
Erik Green, Victor Gwande, Rory Pilossof, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

 

En kamp om produktionen. Arbetare och rationaliseringspolitik i Sverige 1920–1950

Kerstins Rum Session 5: Labour and workers in Sweden since approx. 1850 (in Swedish) organized by Fia Sundevall
Min avhandling handlar om hur svenska metallarbetare tog sig an teknisk förändring under mellankrigstiden. Betydande tekniska och organisatoriska förändringar genomfördes…
Arvand Mirsafian

 

Enclosures and Population in Uppsala County 1760-1900

Gustafscenen Session 1: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
There has been a long-lasting debate on the effect of enclosures on the agricultural development and output. It has been argued that enclosure facilitated land clearance and…
Maja Lundqvist

 

Enclosures and productivity in Eastern Sweden – Evidence from the land market 1840-1869

Gustafscenen Session 2: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
Did enclosures lead to increased agricultural productivity? Enclosures has been held to be an important catalyst for the agricultural development in Europe during the 18th…
Viktor Persarvet, Marja Erikson

 

Energy transitions: past and present

Nya Fest Session 3: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
The paper is…
Magnus Lindmark, Ann-Kristin Bergquist

 

Exogenous Shock Creates Organisational and Structural Change: The impact of Covid-19 on the Swedish business sector

Sångsalen Session 6: Families, business and wealth organized by Staffan Albinsson
The Covid-19 pandemic represents a major crisis with significant impact. Public and private organisations had to face major challenges, including bankruptcies of businesses…
Anders Houltz, Hans Sjögren and Rickard Björnemalm

 

Exogenous Shock Creates Organisational and Structural Change: The impact of Covid-19 on the Swedish business sector

Sångsalen Session 6: Families, business and wealth organized by Staffan Albinsson
The Covid-19 pandemic represents a major crisis with significant impact. Public and private organisations had to face major challenges, including bankruptcies of businesses…
Rickard Björnemalm, Anders Houltz and Hans Sjögren

 

Explorers and creators of markets - Market research and public relations in Sweden 1980s to 1990s

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 4: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
This paper is concerned with the development of market research in Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s from the perspective of a changing landscape for the private consultancy…
Elin Åström Rudberg

 

Fackets roll i prekariseringen: LOs förhandlingar om anställningtryggheten 1990-2020

Room 7 Session 5: Labour and workers in Sweden since approx. 1850 (in Swedish) organized by Fia Sundevall
Fackets roll i prekariseringen: LOs förhandlingar om anställningtryggheten 1990-2020 Thea Holmlund, Stockholms universitet
Thea Holmlund

 

Family life cycle living standards in a pre/early industrial city: Stockholm from 1800 to 1880

Gustafscenen Session 4: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
Recent research has highlighted to need for a better understanding of the development of historical living standards across the family life cycle (Horrell, Humphries…
Anton Svensson

 

Farmers and farm workers: work organization and social relations on six farms in central Sweden 1850-1910.

Gustafscenen Session 2: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
During the second half of the nineteenth century conditions for European farming changed radically. Improved transportations made American grain reach Europe, causing prices…
Patrick Svensson

 

Female labor force participation in census microdata

Gustafscenen Session 3: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
The use of historical census microdata to study individual outcomes and…
Jørgen Modalsli

 

Forging a cultural economy: Swedish-American publishing networks and organizations in the mid-west 1860-1880

Sångsalen Session 6: Families, business and wealth organized by Staffan Albinsson
Ethnic newspapers have been regarded as key institutions in expanding the sense of national and ethnic community. This paper analyses two publishing businesses between…
Erik Thosteman

 

Forging the path to innovation: Gender and social networks during French industrialization

Kerstins Rum Session 6: The application of cutting edge technology to economic history research organized by Jonathan Jayes, Jonas Kreutzer, Youssouf Merouani
Although women have been actively involved in economic activities throughout the industrialization period (e.g., Boserup, 1970; Goldin, 1990), their contributions to…
Youssouf Merouani

 

Freehold Land, Resistance To Authoritarianism and Support for Democracy: Evidence from France

Sångsalen Session 5: Land and the political economy organized by Klas Eriksson
In this article, I provide an analysis covering 900 years of French history and study the long-term influence of free property of land on resistance to authoritarianism and…
Adrien Montalbo

 

From Mercantilism to Tariffs: The American Experience of Protectionism from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1750-1830

Sångsalen Session 1: The political economy of protection organized by Christopher Absell
The history of European settlement in North America is in many ways defined by protection – protection against indigenous peoples, protection against the elements, and…
Jeremy Land, John Moore

 

Gender, migration and labor market: Swedish migration to the US at the turn of the 20th century.

Lilla salen Session 6: Historical Perspectives on Migration organized by Jonatan Andersson
During the Age of Mass Migration (1860-1930), over a million Swedes migrated to the US, with a little over 40% of them being women. While recent advances in digitization and…
Marcos Castillo

 

Growth and Resilience Theory: A new way of conceptualising convergence dynamics.

Kerstins Rum Session 4: Historical national accounts organized by Svante Prado and Kerstin Enflo (session moved to Stora Salen)
Why do some countries develop while others stagnate? Recent evidence suggests the historic fundamental change for economic progress seems to not have been high growth rates…
Anthony Smythe

 

Growth and differentiation in Kenya’s public sector, ca. 1920s to 1960s

Källarsalen Session 2: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
The gradual construction of extensive bureaucracies in sub-Saharan African countries since the colonial era has been noteworthy and has been deemed problematic in many ways.…
Valeria Lukkari

 

Holy Cows and Spilt Milk: A Firm Level Analysis of the Impact of Religious Conflict on Productivity

Lilla salen Session 1: Consequences of Technological Change organized by Suvi Heikkuri
This study examines the impact of non-violent religious conflict on productivity during the industrial revolution in Denmark. Focusing on a Protestant and otherwise…
Christian Vedel, Jeanet Bentzen, University of Copenhagen, Nina Boberg-Fazlic, TU Dortmund University, Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark, Christian Skovsgaard, University of Southern Denmark

 

How to avoid the effects of collapsing commodities? Lessons from history

Källarsalen Session 1: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
This article studies the economic and social consequences of a future fossil commodity collapse, defined as a sharp decline in the value of a fossil fuels on developing…
Cristián Ducoing, Fredrik NG Andersson, Ellen Hillbom and Sara Torregrosa

 

Hälsokris och ekonomisk omvandling. Covid 19:s påverkan på näringslivet i Sverige.

Sångsalen Session 6: Families, business and wealth organized by Staffan Albinsson
Varje kris är unik, och även coronakrisen skiljer ut sig bland de industriella, finansiella och pandemiska kriser som Sverige och övriga världen upplevt under de senaste två…
Anders Houltz, Hans Sjögren

 

In sickness and in health - Sickness among urban and rural working-class men and women in early 20th century Sweden

Lilla salen Session 3: The long road to the welfare state… and beyond: retirement, old-age provision and eldercare in the past and present organized by Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tobias Karlsson
Economic growth has led to higher incomes and improved wealth since the industrial breakthrough, and mortality has declined on a large scale. At the turn of the 20th…
Lars Fredrik Andersson, Liselotte Eriksson

 

Income inequality and its drivers in colonial Kenya, 1921-1960

Gustafscenen Session 5: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
Economic development and inequality are pressing issues in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, home to half of the top 20 most unequal countries in the world. An increasing…
Valeria Lukkari, Maria Mwaipopo Fibaek

 

Income inequality in Sweden 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data

Gustafscenen Session 2: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
We present new estimates of the market income distribution in Sweden from 1870 to 1970, building on a new 1 % sample of taxpayers in 1870, 1900 and 1920, a 0.5 % sample in…
Erik Bengtsson, Jakob Molinder, Svante Prado

 

Innovation networks during the French industrialization – Working with historical text data at scale

Kerstins Rum Session 6: The application of cutting edge technology to economic history research organized by Jonathan Jayes, Jonas Kreutzer, Youssouf Merouani
Although women have been actively involved in economic activities throughout the industrialization period (e.g., Boserup, 1970; Goldin, 1990), their contributions to…
Youssouf Merouani

 

Inter-state solution in the stateless market: the international debt crisis and the global supervision of the Eurocurrency market, 1979 – 1984

Room 7 Session 2: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
Apocalypse Now, the Bank of England circulated an internal report to member central banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 1979. Prepared for ‘possible…
Seung Woo Kim

 

Intermediaries of Cartelization: The Regional Circuits of the Norwegian and Swedish Brewery Cartels, 1906-1956

Nya Fest Session 7: Levels of Cartelization: Scandinavian Perspectives on the Role Cartelization in Business Development organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
A key issue in cartel research is identifying what aids, or hinders, cartel survival and success. Researchers have highlighted factors such as market conditions, types of…
Kasper Hage Stjern

 

Invisible Borders – Persisting Scars: How the Apartheid Homelands Define Contemporary South Africa

Gustafscenen Session 6: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
I utilise a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to examine the long-run persisting welfare reductions caused by the Apartheid homelands (1948-1994). The homelands were the…
Peter Courtney

 

Is Economic Growth Sustainable? Conflicting Signals from International Organisations

Kerstins Rum Session 4: Historical national accounts organized by Svante Prado and Kerstin Enflo (session moved to Stora Salen)
s GDP, a 20th century construct, is aging and misleading for societal challenges of the 21th century, an increasing number of indicators have been proposed to replace the…
Cristián Ducoing, Eoin McLaughlin and Nick Hanley

 

Is public energy innovation funding in line with Swedish environmental targets?

Nya Fest Session 2: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
The current energy crisis has directed public attention towards energy policy and energy innovation. Despite rising research interest, energy innovation policy evaluation is…
Johanna Fink, Josef Taalbi

 

Island Women and the Obesity Transition: Examining SES, Ethnicity and Economic Development

Källarsalen Session 7: Health crises: plagues and strikes organized by Nicolas Maughan
Rates of overweight and obesity are increasing rapidly in developing countries due to economic development, decreasing levels of physical activity, and shifting diets and…
Anna Tegunimataka (Department of Economic History, Lund University), Omar Karlsson (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

 

Kampen om skogsråvaran - köpsågverkens situation i Norrland efter 1970

Sångsalen Session 2: The political economy of protection organized by Christopher Absell
Relativt små privata sågverk som inte äger skog, så kallade köpsågverk, har sedan 1950-talet hamnat alltmer i kläm mellan å ena sidan råvaruförsörjning och timmerpriser och…
Thomas Pettersson, Fredrik Olsson Spjut

 

Lessons from successful disease prevention campaigns in former British Africa: The Nigerian experience with Yaws

Källarsalen Session 3: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are just one of several categories of diseases that have been linked to slow economic development. This group of parasitic and bacterial…
Jeanne Cilliers, Jutta Bolt

 

Life-cycle effects of sex education

Källarsalen Session 5: The role of educational policy, sex education and contraceptives for gender equality organized by Annika Elwert and Volha Lazuka
We assess the impact of the sex education reform 1943-1958 in Sweden on a variety of socio-economic outcomes of the treated cohorts throughout their life cycles.
Volha Lazuka, Annika Elwert

 

Life-cycle impact on consumption in southern Sweden, probate evidence from southern Sweden c. 1680-1860

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 7: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
It is well known among historians of the north-west European early modern household that the lifecycle stage of the household has a large impact on the possible income of…
Marcus Falk

 

Life-long effects of incremental economic resources in childhood: the introduction of the first Swedish child allowance in 1938

Gustafscenen Session 4: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
Adverse socioeconomic circumstances in childhood are associated with long lasting negative effects on future education, income and health. Due to endogeneity, there is…
Louise Cormack

 

Likvida affärer. Ored Olsson i Grönhult, Villands Vånga, och brännvinsekonomin vid 1800-talets mitt.

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 5: Pre-Industrial Households and Markets organized by Marcus Falk
Forskningsfältet rörande svenska historiska kreditmarknader, som i huvudsak bygger på bouppteckningar och behandlas inom skilda discipliner såsom historia, agrarhistoria…
Docent Anders Perlinge, Institutet för Ekonomisk-historisk och Företagshistorisk Forskning (EHFF), Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

 

Local level state capacity in Sweden in the 19th century

Lilla salen Session 4: The long road to the welfare state… and beyond: retirement, old-age provision and eldercare in the past and present organized by Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tobias Karlsson
Most accounts of state capacity treat only the central state or the state as a unitary actor. Apart from missing diversity on a horizontal level – branches of the central…
Johan Ericsson

 

MUSIKLIFVETS HÖJANDE!

Sångsalen Session 2: The political economy of protection organized by Christopher Absell
MUSIKLIFVETS HÖJANDE
Hur kom det sig att tre professionella landsortsorkestrar skapades 1912-1914?
Staffan Albinsson

 

Mare Liberum and the Golden Mine: Anglo-Dutch Relations, the Fisheries, and the Struggle for Maritime Supremacy, 1600-1800

Nya Fest Session 1: International Trade, Mobility and Development organized by Samuel Marknäs
This chapter examines the Anglo-Dutch conflict within the herring and whale fisheries through a political-economic between circa 1600 and 1800. Throughout most of this…
Samuel Marknäs

 

Mastering Digital Research Methods for Economic Historians: Unlocking Efficiency and Collaboration

Kerstins Rum Session 6: The application of cutting edge technology to economic history research organized by Jonathan Jayes, Jonas Kreutzer, Youssouf Merouani
Instead of presenting a paper, we will together clean up a digital research project. This way we will look at some overlooked but essential (or at least headache reducing)…
Jonas Kreutzer

 

Migrant selection and labor outcomes of Non-Western immigrants in Sweden and Denmark after the 2002 Danish reforms

Lilla salen Session 7: Historical Perspectives on Migration organized by Jonatan Andersson
Denmark and Sweden have been hosting countries for similar types of migration since the 1980s. However, despite sharing the same socioeconomic characteristics, their…
Fátima de Arriba Moreno, Anna Tegunimataka and Jonas Helgertz

 

Moderate Opulence: The Evolution of Wealth inequality in Mexico in its first century of independence

Gustafscenen Session 5: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
This article presents the first complete 19th-century reconstruction of the Mexican wealth distribution, from independence to the Mexican Revolution. It uses an often…
Diego Castañeda Garza

 

Moderate advertising The historical development of the regulation of alcohol advertising in Sweden 1950–2003

Kerstins Rum Session 7: History of consumption organized by Fia Sundevall
Moderate advertising The historical development of the regulation of alcohol advertising in Sweden 1950–2003 The study investigates the historical development of the…
Michael Funke

 

Natural Resource Constraint on Fiscal Capacity: Evidence from Canadian Municipalities

Nya Fest Session 5: There ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough: Ownership, redistribution, and extraction of natural resources, 1800-2000 organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
In Canada, the provision of public services is intrinsically linked to the capacity of the state to mobilize revenues and to the ways responsibilities are distributed…
Clara Dallaire-Fortier, Giacomo Rella

 

Neoliberalism in the making? The role of managerial agency in the corproatization of swedish public entperises

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 2: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
An often overlooked aspect of the neoliberal shift within the Swedish national context is the process of corporatization of public enterprises. Corporatization was a…
Rasmus Nykvist, Rickard Björnemalm

 

New estimates of Swedish historical national accounts from the income side, 1870–1910

Kerstins Rum Session 3: Historical national accounts organized by Svante Prado and Kerstin Enflo
The rampant growth rate of Swedish GDP per capita from the mid-1850s to 1913, as borne out by early versions of Swedish historical national accounts, has nurtured the notion…
Svante Prado, Erik Bengtsson and Jakob Molinder

 

Nordic Central Bank Cooperation 1931-1939 – Challenging an era of deglobalisation and uncertainty

Kerstins Rum Session 2: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
In the interwar years, Nordic central bank cooperation intensified and expanded. Before World War I, the Scandinavian countries had communicated per letter and thematically…
Gjermund Forfang Rongved

 

Occupation and family networks at old age, Västerbotten 1890-1960

Lilla salen Session 3: The long road to the welfare state… and beyond: retirement, old-age provision and eldercare in the past and present organized by Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tobias Karlsson
Due to declining working capacity at old age, individuals have throughout history assured against loss of income through family networks, life-cycle savings and or public…
Dennis Fahlgren

 

Old age, pensions and retirement before the welfare state

Lilla salen Session 4: The long road to the welfare state… and beyond: retirement, old-age provision and eldercare in the past and present organized by Jaco Zuijderduijn and Tobias Karlsson
Historians have long established that elderly people were at risk of impoverishment. To study how societies tried to prevent this from happening, they have used a mixed…
Jaco Zuijderduijn

 

Paid spinning in rural landless and semi-landless households in Sweden 1767-1797: Some preliminary results

Gustafscenen Session 1: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
We present the initial dataset of a five year research project with a focus on three different perspectives on spinners and industrialization. The first study focuses on the…
Kathryn Gary, Malin Nilsson & Mats Olsson

 

Panel debate on Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 7: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
This third portion of the session will be a panel debate amongst the organizers and participants.
Panel debate

 

Patterns and Causes of Marketization in Public Services

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 2: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
Privatization has resulted in the changed ownership of important sectors of developed economies, including telecommunications, aviation, railways and utilities. While…
Dominic Mealy, Jonas Ljungberg

 

Paying the price for protecting consumption: the business history of the coffee trade in Sweden during WWII

Kerstins Rum Session 7: History of consumption organized by Fia Sundevall
On the eve of WWII coffee consumption in Sweden was described as among the world’s highest per capita. One of the most widely and publicly commented government policies…
Nikolas Glover

 

Perceived Resources for Battery Manufacturing in Norway

Nya Fest Session 4: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
This work sets out to analyze what resources that were and are available for battery produc-tion in Norway by using FREYR Battery as an example. However, since the company…
Øyvind H. Nordbotten

 

Planning for old age: household savings in Sweden in the early 20th century

Room 1 Session 7: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
The effects of pensions and other social insurance programs on household savings are much debated (Attanasio & Brugiavini 2003; Hurd et al. 2012; Feng et al. 2011). This…
Kristina Lilja

 

Public policies, electrification and electric vehicle adoption: A comparative case study of Chicago

Sångsalen Session 4: Structured by the State – infrastructure and communication in the era of industrialization organized by Björn Hasselgren and Jan Ottosson
This paper explores how policy changes affected the resilience of automobile manufacturers clusters in the early 20th century US. Although we know that the electric vehicle…
Josef Taalbi, Alexandra López Cermeño

 

Railroads, Geographic and Social Mobility: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

Nya Fest Session 1: International Trade, Mobility and Development organized by Samuel Marknäs
Very short abstract: We provide microeconomic evidence on the effect of transportation infrastructure in shaping individuals’ opportunities. We use the expansion of the…
Maxence Castiello, Clément Bosquet

 

Relieving famine. Northern Sweden (Västerbotten) during the 1860s: Local, Regional and Comparative Perspectives.

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 6: Pre-Industrial Households and Markets organized by Marcus Falk
In 1867-68 northern Sweden suffered from a famine that has not gained much scholarly interest. Here we study how this famine was relieved. Furthermore, we emphasize the…
Henrik Forsberg, Magnus Bohman

 

Remaining in the Northern ”Future Country”? Migration patterns among graduates from the technical secondary school in Härnösand, 1901-1971

Lilla salen Session 6: Historical Perspectives on Migration organized by Jonatan Andersson
In this paper, we study the migration patterns to and from the technical secondary school in Hänösand and the subsequent technical high school from 1901 to 1971, when an…
Per-Olof Grönberg, Fay Lundh Nilsson

 

Riksbanken och regimskiftet: ‘Ett oroande spring av utländska banker’

Kerstins Rum Session 1: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
The 1970’s was a time of regime change. Major changes occurred within the international exchange rate system, regulation of international capital flows, domestic economic…
Cecilia Kahn

 

SAS and the Cold War

Sångsalen Session 4: Structured by the State – infrastructure and communication in the era of industrialization organized by Björn Hasselgren and Jan Ottosson
During the Cold War, the interaction between the civil aviation industry and the state was transformed in Western Europe. Contrary to many other countries, the SAS, had…
Jan Ottosson, Lars Fälting

 

Sex and the Single Girl: The Pill and a Century of Unwed Childbearing

Källarsalen Session 5: The role of educational policy, sex education and contraceptives for gender equality organized by Annika Elwert and Volha Lazuka
A century of fertility data spanning the pill’s introduction informs a model where women’s demand for premarital sex is a function of local customs for preventing unwed…
Kelly Ragan

 

Shades of Green in the Swedish Forest-Based Bioeconomy Transition

Nya Fest Session 4: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
The Swedish forestry sector is positioning itself at the forefront of the transition to a bioeconomy both nationally and internationally. The bioeconomy implies the…
Philipp Jonas Kreutzer

 

Shine a light: Community Effects of Distributed Energy Systems in East Africa since the 1990s

Källarsalen Session 1: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
Access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy remains a critical issue in Africa, where 43% of the continent’s population, or more than half a billion people lack…
Jakob Hannerz, Jutta Bolt

 

Short-term variation in urban breadwinner incomes as a determinant for the earnings of their spouse and children: Sweden 1913-14

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 7: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
Historical research has in recent years increased the efforts to quantify and clarify the female labor force participation. The task is made difficult by the fact that…
Malin Nilsson, Stefan Öberg

 

Shrinking and financial development in Kenya and Tanzania, 1960-2020

Källarsalen Session 2: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
The failure of many countries in the Global South to catch up economically to the advanced economies of the Global North has long been a topic of interest to economic…
Sascha Klocke, Tobias Axelsson

 

Social Tables for Tanganyika, 1925-1957

Gustafscenen Session 7: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
The study of historical income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa has received considerable attention over recent years, driven by the increasing recognition of the importance…
Sascha Klocke

 

Swedish Historical National Accounts 2023 Update, Revision and Underlying Principles

Kerstins Rum Session 4: Historical national accounts organized by Svante Prado and Kerstin Enflo (session moved to Stora Salen)
Since the most recent edition of the SHNA only stretches as far as 2010, the main purpose of this paper is to update the accounts using more recent data from Statistics…
Kerstin Enflo, Charlie Nilsson, Kerstin Enflo, Håkan Lobell, Olle Krantz

 

Tariff protection in Argentina between the First Globalization and the post-war period

Sångsalen Session 1: The political economy of protection organized by Christopher Absell
This paper explores the evolution of tariff protection in Argentina between 1879 and 1951. While Latin American countries since independence are usually perceived as…
Juan Pablo Juliá, Cecilia Lara (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

 

The 1938 Swedish child allowance and its short-term effects

Gustafscenen Session 4: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
TBA
Louise Cormack

 

The Business of Renewable Energy Development: The Oil Industry and Geothermal Energy in Iceland and California, 1960s-1970s

Nya Fest Session 4: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
Renewable energy systems are often thought of as alternatives to fossil fuels. A historical view, however, reveals that different energy systems tend to co-evolve, with…
Odinn Melsted

 

The Economic Costs of Bank Closures: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Kerstins Rum Session 2: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
A fundamental feature of major banking crises in economic history is the closure of banks (Reinhart and Rogoff, 2009; Grossman, 2010; Jalil, 2015). A classic example is the…
Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard, Emma Horgan

 

The Effect of Strikes on Health

Källarsalen Session 7: Health crises: plagues and strikes organized by Nicolas Maughan
This paper examines the health effects of labor strikes in Sweden during the early 20th century. Worker-employer disagreements over wages and working conditions often…
Nikolaos Prodromidis

 

The Formation of a New Republic: Steel Industry and Society 1871-1914

Sångsalen Session 3: Structured by the State – infrastructure and communication in the era of industrialization organized by Björn Hasselgren and Jan Ottosson
Economic nationalism has been a crucial aspect of the European economy during late 19th- mid 20th century, especially after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war in…
Stylianos Panagiotidis

 

The Frontline Christmas Gift: Promoting Home-front Patriotism in Second World War Sweden

Room 7 Session 7: History of consumption organized by Fia Sundevall
This paper deals with the Frontline Christmas Gift – Fältjulklappen – in Sweden during the Second World War. The annual campaign was organized by a national committee in…
Nikolas Glover, Fia Sundevall; Klara Arnberg

 

The Human Cost of Inequality: Race Differentials across Time and Space in Child Mortality in the United States, 1850-1940

Gustafscenen Session 3: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
We use a method developed by Hacker and Helgertz to identify child mortality in linked…
Jonas Helgertz, J David Hacker, Richard Steckel, Nicolas Ziebarth

 

The Illusory Independence of Bank of Japan

Kerstins Rum Session 1: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
Central bank independence became something of a trend in the 1990s. The reasons include memories of stagflation in the 1980s, the success of the German Bundesbank in keeping…
Åsa Malmström Rognes

 

The Little Ice Age energy transition

Nya Fest Session 2: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
Climate warming and other consequences of fossil fuel emissions has recently elevated the industrial revolution to the status of a geological event or epoch as the…
John brolin

 

The Market Mightier Than the Family? A Case Study of Market Transfers and Land Distribution in Holland, 1555-1684

Gustafscenen Session 1: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
The current paper attempts to add to our understanding of the workings of the land market in early modern Holland over the long term in periods of economic growth, decline…
Bram Hilkens

 

The Power of the Pill: Evidence from Oral Contraceptive Sales

Källarsalen Session 6: The role of educational policy, sex education and contraceptives for gender equality organized by Annika Elwert and Volha Lazuka
The introduction of oral contraception (‘the pill’) was a watershed in fertility control. Yet, the pill’s impact on childbearing has been hard to establish due to limited…
kelly ragan

 

The Returns to Migration: Internal Migration and Intergenerational Mobility in Sweden, 1880-1940

Lilla salen Session 7: Historical Perspectives on Migration organized by Jonatan Andersson
What where the effects of migration on upwards mobility in the past? I show that the returns to internal migration were substantial by using a difference-in-difference…
Jonatan Andersson

 

The Role of Trade Unions in Precarisation: LO’s Negotiations on Employment Security 1990-2020

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 3: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
Fackets roll i prekariseringen: LOs förhandlingar om anställningtryggheten 1990-2020 Thea Holmlund, Stockholms universitet
Thea Holmlund

 

The Role of the State and Worker Power in Social Upgrading and Downgrading of the Mauritian Garment Industry

Källarsalen Session 3: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
Developmental states have historically played an important role in achieving industrialization that brings about better economic conditions at the national level. On the…
Linn Ternsjö

 

The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

Sångsalen Session 5: Land and the political economy organized by Klas Eriksson
The implications of land inequality for politics and democratization is a classical debate in social sciences and political economy. A recurring argument is what the…
Erik Bengtsson, Felix Kersting (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

 

The State as Gardener – the State as Structure

Sångsalen Session 4: Structured by the State – infrastructure and communication in the era of industrialization organized by Björn Hasselgren and Jan Ottosson
The railway is one of the innovations that has influenced modern social development the most. When the first main lines began to be built in Sweden during the mid-19th…
Anna Lindgren

 

The Struggle Against Institutions: Platform Market Creation and the State

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 1: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
Associated to the proliferation of platform capitalism, a strand of management and organisational literature came to attach to this development a theory of institutional…
Pontus Blüme

 

The Swedish Automobile Industry and the Environment during the Oil Crisis: The present-day environmental transition in perspective

Nya Fest Session 3: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
The climate crisis and other environmental problems pose major challenges to contemporary societies, even existential risks. Effective mitigation of climate change as well…
Mattias Näsman

 

The Swedish State Revenues and Finances 1350–1600

Room 7 Session 3: Historical national accounts organized by Svante Prado and Kerstin Enflo
The purpose of this project is to reconstruct the annual fixed and variable revenues of the Swedish state through taxes, fines, customs duties and other fees during the…
Olov Lund, Dag Retsö

 

The Swedish innovation system for sustainable transitions – Insights from innovation output data

Nya Fest Session 3: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
This study makes use of historical emission statistics and a database on Swedish innovations, 1970-2019 to investigate the historical evolution and current state of Sweden’s…
Josef Taalbi, Philipp Jonas Kreutzer

 

The Swedish innovation system for sustainable transitions – Insights from innovation output data

Room 4 Session 3: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
The paper is…
Magnus Lindmark, Ann-Kristin Bergquist

 

The Union Wage Effect at the Dawn of the Great Levelling - Evidence from Interwar Sweden

Gustafscenen Session 3: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
In this paper, I use a new plant-level dataset to investigate the relationship between wages and the regional strength of unions. Using a shift-share or ’Bartik’…
William Skoglund

 

The Urban Premium During Industrialization: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migration in Sweden

Lilla salen Session 6: Historical Perspectives on Migration organized by Jonatan Andersson
The process of industrialization is typically associated with rural-to-urban migration and a gap in incomes between cities and the countryside. To what extent is the income…
Jonatan Andersson, Jakob Molinder

 

The art of surviving as a family business – the Nordic case

Sångsalen Session 6: Families, business and wealth organized by Staffan Albinsson
The art of surviving as a family business – the Nordic case
Hans Sjögren

 

The current energy crisis in historical perspective

Nya Fest Session 3: Sustainability and energy transitions in economic and business history organized by Mattias Näsman and Josef Taalbi
The energy crisis of 2022 has several similarities to the oil crises of the 1970s, but there are also differences. This paper takes a very long perspective on the situation…
Astrid Kander

 

The distributive effects of consumption taxes

Gustafscenen Session 5: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
This paper presents estimates of the distributive effects of consumption taxes in five Western countries, during the period 1910 to 1970. With this, it aims to contribute to…
Sara Torregrosa-Hetland, Oriol Sabaté

 

The economy of freight transport on road: Interaction between bans and technical improvements of vehicles and road construction.

Sångsalen Session 3: Structured by the State – infrastructure and communication in the era of industrialization organized by Björn Hasselgren and Jan Ottosson
The economic principle for hauliers is simple: put as much load on a vehicle as possible. This formula was easy to understand when road transportation was based on…
Jørgen Burchardt

 

The impact of electricity on productivity: an industry-level approach to Swedish manufacturing, 1913–1938

Lilla salen Session 2: Consequences of Technological Change organized by Suvi Heikkuri
Technological change takes place spasmodically, as research demonstrates; a commonly shared view among economic historians is that a few sets of specific technologies…
Svante Prado, Christopher Absell and Jesper Hamark

 

The making and breaking of an “international order” of mineral extraction in the long 19th century

Nya Fest Session 6: There ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough: Ownership, redistribution, and extraction of natural resources, 1800-2000 organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
Mineral extraction played a crucial part in the globalization drive following the Second Industrial Revolution. From the middle of the 19th century to the First World War…
Andreas R.D. Sanders

 

The politics of profits: Profit squeeze and macroeconomic management in Sweden, 1975–1985

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 4: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
In the late 1970s, the Swedish economy faced a profit squeeze which threatened to hamper investments and, by extension, jobs creation. Economic policy makers reacted and…
Erik Bengtsson

 

The price and welfare consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846

Sångsalen Session 1: The political economy of protection organized by Christopher Absell
Research on trade liberalisation frequently overlooks the effects on third party welfare. This paper studies an historically tragic third-party consequence of a special case…
Christopher Absell

 

The role of clearing in central bank cooperation: From the Scandinavian Monetary Union to the Bank for International Settlements

Kerstins Rum Session 2: Central banking – a science or an art? organized by Lars Fredrik Øksendal and Anders Ögren
In our recent article on central bank cooperation and lender of last resort in the Scandinavian Monetary Union (Ögren & Trautwein 2022) we found that in the context of a…
Anders Ögren, Hans-Michael Trautwein

 

The value of practical knowledge: Skilled workrs’ job switching within, to and from mining in Norway from ca. 1787 to 1940

Nya Fest Session 5: There ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough: Ownership, redistribution, and extraction of natural resources, 1800-2000 organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
This paper provides an empirical analysis of skilled workers’ work careers in mining in Norway, 1787-1940. It seeks to give new insights into recruitment to mining and job…
Kristin Ranestad

 

This land is my land: A Global and Comparative History of Regulation of Agricultural Land c. 1789-1913

Nya Fest Session 5: There ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough: Ownership, redistribution, and extraction of natural resources, 1800-2000 organized by Kasper Hage Stjern
Land use has been regulated since the dawn of civilization. Land was the key resource in premodern and preindustrial societies. Land policy, land use and land ownership…
Pål Thonstad Sandvik, Pål Thonstad Sandvik

 

Too sick to work: welfare benefits in early 20th century Sweden

Gustafscenen Session 4: Life cycles incomes and relief during stages of economic hardship organized by Anton Svensson and Louise Cormack
This paper looks at how individuals have overcome economic hardship by focusing on those too sick to work in early 20th century Sweden. The current design of Swedish…
Helene Castenbrandt

 

Trade shocks and Resilience to Economic shrinking: comparative analysis of Argentina, Australia, and Canada

Kerstins Rum Session 3: Historical national accounts organized by Svante Prado and Kerstin Enflo
Convergence has been an exception since the Industrial Revolution. Rarer are the cases of divergence from the group of “rich” nations. Argentina’s experience is usually…
Juan Pablo Juliá, Martin Andersson (Lund University)

 

Underemployment and the Neoliberal Shift

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 3: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
This paper proposal is an early draft of my dissertation ‘plan paper’, to be presented at the Political Science…
Paulina Vaughn

 

Understanding wage discrimination in a settler colony: Khoesan wages in nineteenth century Cape Colony

Gustafscenen Session 6: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
Scholars have extensively studied gender discrimination in various historical and contemporary labour market settings (Boserup 1970, Goldin 1990, Alesina et al 2013). This…
Erik Green, Calumet Links

 

What do and don’t the censuses tell us about married women’s work?

Gustafscenen Session 2: Labour, living standards and inequality organized by Erik Bengtsson, Kathryn Gary, Tobias Karlsson, Malin Nilsson and Jakob Molinder
Previous research has stressed the limitations of using the historical censuses’ enumeration on women’s work, mainly concerning the fact that married women were by and large…
Kelsey Marleen Mol

 

What explains technological adaptation in Africa? A comparative study of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

Källarsalen Session 1: Paths towards sustained development in the global south: Historical lessons organized by Erik Green and Ellen Hillbom
It is widely acknowledged that for countries to catchup in productivity, they need to go through a process of technological upgrading. Although few African countries have…
Bertus Markus Melles, Prince Young Aboagye

 

What we gained that time we lost so much

Gustafscenen Session 6: Global inequality – levels and trends organized by Ellen Hillbom
In this article we explore the precariousness of the Mexican state between the two most important foreign interventions that the country suffered in the 19th century. We…
Diego Castañeda Garza, Sergio Silva Castañeda

 

Wired for Success: Sweden’s Electrical Innovators in the Age of Industrial Transformation

Kerstins Rum Session 6: The application of cutting edge technology to economic history research organized by Jonathan Jayes, Jonas Kreutzer, Youssouf Merouani
This paper, entitled ‘Wired for Success: Sweden’s Electrical Innovators in the Age of Industrial Transformation,’ explores the life courses of Swedish innovators during the…
Jonathan Jayes

 

Women inventors: an exploration of French patents 1791-1900

Lilla salen Session 5: Leading Change: Female Pioneers in Patenting and Inventing organized by Youssouf Merouani
The expanding research on the evolution of women’s position in society has contributed to dispel persistent myths about how much they contributed to the economic prosperity…
Youssouf Merouani, Faustine Perrin

 

Women, Jews, and Foreigners. A Data Analysis of Minority Inventorship in Nazi Germany

Lilla salen Session 5: Leading Change: Female Pioneers in Patenting and Inventing organized by Youssouf Merouani
When one thinks of the economic and social circumstances faced by women, Jews, and foreign nationals in the Third Reich, very different challenges spring to mind. Through…
Sophia Rishyna

 

Work life as an arena for neoliberal subjectification: The case of personal time management in Sweden during the 1980s

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 4: The Neoliberal Shift organized by Jonas Ljungberg and Erik Bengtsson
The paper is based on a book chapter about the establishment of personal time management as industry and ideology in Sweden during the 1980s (‘Marknadens tid’…
Charlotte Nilsson

 

‘I am doing divinely’ Jenny Lind’s financial legacy

Sångsalen Session 7: Families, business and wealth organized by Staffan Albinsson
TBA
Staffan Albinsson

 

“Two pairs of cotton socks, and 1 ditto worn.” - Cotton consumption households in Karlskrona at the turn of the 1800s.

Lilla Sparbanksfoajén Session 6: Pre-Industrial Households and Markets organized by Marcus Falk
The transition between early modern and modern times was marked in Europe by major changes in the clothing supply of households. The availability of new textile materials…
Christina Dackling
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