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- Galli, Stefania, 1989, et al.
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Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
- 2023
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a full population in the Caribbeans over the long run, the DWI panel. The panel contains over 1.35 million observations spanning 154 years, well over 100 variables, and its records are linked across sources along demographic and geographic lines throughout the entire period. This richness is all the more valuable in light of the limited source’s availability characteristics of the area and is hoped to lead to a renewed debate over our understanding of former slave societies, while fostering collaborations with scholars relying on similar datasets for other areas of the world.
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- Galli, Stefania, 1989, et al.
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Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914
- 2024
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The issue of how elites as a social group come to be, how they maintain their position and how they affect the society they come to control is very much at the centre of the inequality debate. The present paper studies one of the most extreme unequal societies ever recorded, that of the sugar-based economies in the West Indies, and examines the emergence and persistence of its economic elite by focusing on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. The study spans 154 years, enabling us to study long-run elite persistence along with the effects that major economic, institutional, and social changes had on it. Our study shows that elite persistence remained high throughout this period, despite several potential ‘critical junctures’ taking place. The Crucian elite not only managed to maintain its relative standing but also to accumulate a growing share of the total wealth available on the island. Maintaining a grip on the economy did, nonetheless, coincide with a severe and rapid impoverishment in absolute terms.
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- Granér, Staffan, 1961, et al.
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Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve 1895-2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 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, the trend of increasing water pollution has been turned in many industrialized countries, delinking economic growth from environmental pollution. This is in essence one aspect of what many environmental economists call an ‘environmental Kuznets curve’. The research question of this project is why there is such a pattern to water quality in many countries? Much previous literature on the topic studies only the positive impact of environmental legislation. This study, focusing upon the case of the river Göta in Sweden, undertakes a more thorough analysis, including other crucial factors as well such as industrial transformation and decline, as well as stakeholder associations. The project utilizes a very long series of data on the water quality in the river Göta, covering more than 100 years of data for crucial indicators, in order to establish what factors were contributing to reducing levels of pollution. Analyzing the driving factors of this ‘Environmental Kuznets Curve’ can give us crucial insights into how a sustainable development might be achieved in the future.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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"Alltid något att visa upp för nationens ögon" - Franska tomten och den svenska jakten på kolonier
- 2007
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Ingår i: Ord & Bild. - 0030-4492. ; :3-4, s. 63-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I centrala Göteborg kan man än idag finna ett kvarter vid namn Franska tomten. Bakom namnet ligger en mer än 200 år gammal och av de flesta bortglömd historia. I Göteborgs stadsmuseums stora verk om stadskärnans historik finns bara en kort mening om att det här under 1700-talets slut fanns särskilda magasin för franska handelsvaror. De franska varumagasinen har dock en längre historia, som knyter an till Europas kolonisering av Amerika.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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An early-modern consumer revolution in the Baltic?
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Ingår i: Consumption, power and culture in the early modern Atlantic world, June 4-5, 2009, Åbo Akademi, Finland.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The European consumer revolution has gained increasing attention in recent years. This paper goes beyond the previous scholarly focus upon Western Europe in general, and Britain in particular, by studying the consumer revolution in the Baltic region in general, and Denmark and Sweden in particular. Previous research has underestimated the quantities of ‘new luxuries’ imported into the Baltic region. Disaggregating the region, the empirical evidence shows that the Danish population consumed approximately as much of for example sugar as the British did, already by the late 18th century. The paper argues that this to a large extent can be attributed to the fact that real wages in Denmark were comparatively high at the time, even approaching the levels paid to workers in high-wage countries in north-western Europe. The high wages, together with a number of other factors, thus enabled an early consumer revolution at least in this part of the Baltic.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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An end and a new beginning: disintegration of inter-continental commodity markets during the Revolutionary Era, 1770s to 1820s
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Ingår i: Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte. - 1436-6371. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The outbreak of the American, and later also the French, Revolution, would have significant economic repercussions around the world. This article studies the issue of inter-continental market disintegration during the Revolutionary Era quantitatively. The paper finds that the empirical evidence shows a significant increase in price dispersion on inter-continental trade routes during the period. After the end of the revolutionary wars, prices rapidly converged back to pre-war levels. The Revolutionary Era thus constituted the end of an era and the beginning of a new not only politically, but also for inter-continental trade. The effects were however asymmetrical, depending on the specific trade routes and countries importing the goods.
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