How the City was Owned : Property Markets, Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship in Stockholm, Sweden 1726-2018

• In this dissertation three central themes concerning the ownership and allocation in the city of Stockholm over long periods are examined.The first theme property markets involves constructions of real estate price indexes spanning from 1726 to 2018. The second theme property rights concerns the regulation of private and public ownership of real estate from 1874 to 2010. The third theme entrepreneurship in urban environments is an examination of the efforts to influence property markets and property rights through entrepreneurship in difference sectors from the 1920s to the 2010s.With an extensive amount of empirical material, this dissertation examines and relates the three themes to each other and shed new light on urban dynamics from an historical perspective. This dissertation is particularly important today when ownership and prices of real estate in cities are burning issues, and entrepreneurship is of central importance for development. The dissertation is a compilation thesis consisting of six articles.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

real estate

law

private property

public property

Stockholm

PBL

planning and building law

urban

Sweden

New Institutional Economics

long-term

mixed methods

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

general

specific

formulations

entrepreneurship

regulations

sharing

owning

digital entrepreneurship

digital innovation

cities

agglomeration

institutional entrepreneurship

field conditions

regulatory capture

price index

Economic History

ekonomisk historia

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

dok (ämneskategori)