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- Ögren, Anders, et al.
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Swedish money supply, 1620–2012
- 2014
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In: Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics for Sweden, Volume II : House Prices, Stock Returns, National Accounts, and the Riksbank Balance Sheet, 1620–2012 - House Prices, Stock Returns, National Accounts, and the Riksbank Balance Sheet, 1620–2012. - Stockholm : Ekerlids förlag. - 9789187391293 - 9789189612822 ; 2, s. 293-338
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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Explaining the Swedish ‘housewife era’ of 1930–1970 : joint utility maximisation or renewed patriarchy?
- 2017
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In: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 65:2, s. 169-188
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study shows that the Swedish ‘housewife era’ roughly occurred in 1930–1970. During the 1950s, the ratio of women’s worked hours to men’s worked hours reached a low point. In the early 1970s, it rose to above 50%. We argue that models of joint utility maximisation, assuming equal gender power relations unrestrained by cultural and institutional settings, cannot alone explain this era. The two principal structural mechanisms behind the rise of the breadwinner household were the decline of the farm household and the increased proportion of married women. Both weakened the bargaining position of women. Three results in our study weaken the claims of the joint utility maximisation model. Firstly, marriage was much more important than motherhood in determining the probability of women’s labour force participation, although the age of the child is then not taken into account. Secondly, the labour force participation of married women was similar across different social strata outside of the farm and top income households, indicating a prevalent capitalist patriarchal structure. Thirdly, women’s leisure was valued less than men’s, demonstrating that the preferences of the husband were prioritised over those of the wife.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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New Estimates of Time Use in Sweden 1950-2012
- 2017
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In: Journal of European Economic History. - 0391-5115 .- 2499-8281. ; 46:2, s. 77-116
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The official statistics on GDP and the labour market exclude unpaiddomestic services. Yet there are good theoretical reasons why his-torians should study unpaid work. This paper reconstructs annualestimates of time use in Sweden from 1950 to 2012 amongwomen and men. It finds substantial convergence between the gen-ders in time use from the 1960s to the early 1980s. During the pe-riod of inquiry, the gender difference in total working time vanished.The double burden for women did not increase when they enteredthe labour market. The reduction in the time women spent on un-paid work is explained about equally by the shortening of the totalamount of unpaid work and by increasing male participation inhousehold chores. In 1950-1963, the reduction was explainedmainly by the decline in the making and mending of clothes athome and the spread of domestic appliances. In the 1963–1984period, instead, it was due chiefly to men’s greater participation inhousehold work. These mechanisms were largely historically con-tingent, suggesting that it is impossible to single out just one factorto explain why Sweden today has less gender inequality than othercountries.
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- Carlsson, Emelie, et al.
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A real-estate price index for Stockholm, 1726–1875
- 2022
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In: Banking, Bonds, National Wealth, and Stockholm House Prices, 1420–2020. - Stockholm : Ekerlids förlag. - 9789189323605 ; , s. 297-334
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter presents new, nominal and real price indices for real estate in Stockholm from 1726 up to 1875. The new series presented here can be linked to already existing price indices for real estate in Stockholm: from 1875 up to 1957; from 1957 to1975 3 and; from 1975 up to 2020.For this, a new database is used that covers registered real estate transactions in the present inner city of Stockholm for the period and the method of repeated sales is applied. The indices are based on information from 22,169 unique transactions. To control for qualitative changes inthe housing stock, a database of 7,915 issued building permits has been used.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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A Consumer Price Index for Sweden, 1290–2008
- 2011
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In: The Review of Income and Wealth. - : Wiley. - 0034-6586 .- 1475-4991. ; 57:2, s. 270-292
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents a Consumer Price Index for Sweden 1290–2008. Constructing an index that covers more than seven centuries poses conceptual and empirical problems, and demands some methodological innovations. For example, during numerous occasions the currency unit was changed, and in some periods multiple currencies were used at floating exchange rates relative to each other. This paper also presents two different price indices, one that mainly serves the purposes of estimating real prices and real wages, and another that provides a measure of inflation. While the former follows the main currency unit, the latter also takes into account that debased coins were devalued during recoinage.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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A Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall? : From Primitive to Flexible Accumulation in Sweden 1800-2005
- 2010
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In: The Review of Radical Political Economics. - : SAGE Publications. - 0486-6134 .- 1552-8502. ; 42:4, s. 465-484
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Using Swedish historical national accounts, this paper shows that, up to the 1970s, there has been a secular rise in the national capital/output ratio and a secular fall in the rate of exploitation, which tended to depress the profit rate. In Sweden, the nominal capital/output ratio increased fastest during the transition from primitive to accelerated accumulation in the 19th century. Since the 1970s, these secular trends have been reversed, which is connected to flexible accumulation that slims down the inventory stock to a minimum and destroys old consensus between capital and labor.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption : A Transhistorical Framework
- 2023
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.The book opens with a discussion of various theoretical traditions within economics, spanning mainstream and heterodox perspectives, and problems with production definitions in use today. Next, the author outlines various definitions in a more formal manner and provides a discussion on measurement and the production boundary. Unproductive work is redefined as socially reproductive, i.e. such that would not be performed on a Robinson Crusoe Island. Finally, the volume applies the new conceptual framework to various historical cases and discusses the future of production, work and consumption.This essential volume will be of interest to scholars of economic philosophy and methodology, the history of economic thought, economic history and national accounting.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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Assessing trade in the mercantilist era : evidence from a new database on foreign trade of Sweden – Finland, 1738–1805
- 2018
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In: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 66:3, s. 226-245
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents a newly constructed database on foreign trade of Sweden–Finland 1738–1805, consisting of all exports and imports that were recorded by the custom houses in this period, and is made available at www.historia.se/Swedish foreign trade 1738_1805.xlsx. The traditional view as presented by Eli Heckscher, who was very critical of the mercantilist policies of the time, was that the overseas trade of Sweden-Finland saw a trend of secular stagnation during the course of the eighteenth century. By contrast, we show that in conjunction with a substantial expansion of the population, total trade nearly increased twofold during the period of study. Despite that, there was a small decrease in the value of exports in relation to GDP, mostly explained by a drop in the relative price of bar iron. The degree of specialisation of Swedish exports saw a declining tendency in this period. While exports from Sweden had a higher degree of specialisation than Finnish exports, imported goods to Finland were more concentrated than Swedish imports. Lastly, the composition of imports did not markedly alter, meaning that a consumer revolution did not take place in either Sweden or Finland.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney Benjamin, 1971-
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Recalculating Swedish pre-census demographic data : was there acceleration in early modern population growth?
- 2015
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In: Cliometrica. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1863-2505 .- 1863-2513. ; 9:2, s. 167-191
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The world population growth increased in the eighteenth century, which caused real wages to decline in most countries. Eli Heckscher held the view that Swedish population growth was quite low in the seventeenth century, similar to the development in the rest of Europe, and that there was a substantial acceleration after 1720. Recent data for Sweden by Lennart Andersson Palm entail that population growth was stronger in the seventeenth century than in the eighteenth century. However, this is at variance with other types of economic data. For example, Swedish real wages increased during the seventeenth century and fell in the eighteenth century. This study attempts to resolve the anomaly and argues that Palm's estimates of Swedish population and mortality rates are too low for the seventeenth century. It presents revised annual demographic data for Sweden for the pre-census period, back to 1630. The new data indicate that there was a small acceleration in early modern population growth, due to the decreased occurrence of mortality crises, but the acceleration was not as pronounced as in the rest of the world.
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