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- Ögren, Anders, et al.
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Swedish money supply, 1620–2012
- 2014
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Ingår i: 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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- 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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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 65:2, s. 169-188
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: Journal of European Economic History. - 0391-5115 .- 2499-8281. ; 46:2, s. 77-116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Ahnland, Lars, 1974-
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Financialization in Swedish Capitalism : Debt, inequality and crisis in Sweden, 1900-2013
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation adresses financialization – the increasing role of financial activities in the overall economy – in Sweden in 1900-2013. The focus is on the long run relationships between private debt, asset markets, inequality and financial crisis during this period. In line with established scholarship, the present study finds that changes in bank debt had a positive impact on the probability of financial crisis in Sweden. Functional income distribution between profits and wages was an underlying factor influencing the formation of bank debt levels through its impact on collateral in stock markets. Expenses related to the Swedish welfare state – the size of the public sector, government investment and housing construction – had a long run relationship with the wage share. The welfare state has been an effective counter-measure not just against a high profit share, but also against financialization. Moreover, the dissertation shows that the recent era of financialization in Swedish capitalism is not unique in kind. Rather, recent financialization is very similar to the macroeconomic situation during the early decades of the 20th Century. These findings are consistent with much of heterodox economic theory, in particular the Neo-Marxist approach.
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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, et al.
(författare)
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Om ekonomisk historia
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144132945 ; , s. 21-37
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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, et al.
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Om metoder i ekonomisk historia
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144132945 ; , s. 67-91
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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, et al.
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Om teorier i ekonomisk historia
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144132945 ; , s. 39-66
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- Bengtsson, Erik, et al.
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Ekonomisk ojämlikhet
- 2020
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Ingår i: Vad är ekonomisk historia?.
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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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Ingår i: Banking, Bonds, National Wealth, and Stockholm House Prices, 1420–2020. - Stockholm : Ekerlids förlag. - 9789189323605 ; , s. 297-334
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)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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Ingår i: The Review of Income and Wealth. - : Wiley. - 0034-6586 .- 1475-4991. ; 57:2, s. 270-292
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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, et al.
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A Consumer Price Index for Sweden 1291-2006
- 2007
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to describe the construction of a Consumer Price Index for Sweden 1290-2006. The focus is not to present any new empirical material, but rather to use the very rich empirical material collected in earlier studies on the price history of Sweden to construct a price index that as far as possible use a consistent method through time. This paper also discusses some theoretical and conceptual problems in relation to constructing a historical consumer price index.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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A price index for residential property in Stockholm, 1875–2011
- 2014
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Ingår i: House prices, stock returns, national accounts and the Riksband balance sheet 1620-2012. - Stockholm : Ekerlids förlag. - 9789189612822 ; , s. 63-100
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, et al.
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A real estate price index for Stockholm, Sweden 1818–2018 : putting the last decades housing price boom in a historical perspective
- 2021
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 69:1, s. 83-101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Earlier research describes the development of real housing prices as a ‘hockey stick’, i.e. of long stagnation followed by a sharp upturn in recent decades. A problem is that there are very few indices of residential property covering longer periods. Using a database of around 10,900 sales, this study presents a historical housing price index for Stockholm 1818–1875, which extend a previous index by 57 years, one of the longest for any city. A so-called repeated sales index is compared to a sales price appraisals ratio index. We show that in real terms there have been two long upswings, in 1855–1887 and 1993–2018. In other periods, real prices were stagnant or even slightly declining. The nineteenth century upturn did not end in a crash, but was followed by stagnation for a century. There are many similarities between the two upturns. For example, both coincided with the demographic expansion and were preceded by deregulations. During both periods, properties became more expensive relative income levels.
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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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Ingår i: The Review of Radical Political Economics. - : SAGE Publications. - 0486-6134 .- 1552-8502. ; 42:4, s. 465-484
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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Bok (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 66:3, s. 226-245
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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Ingår i: Cliometrica. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1863-2505 .- 1863-2513. ; 9:2, s. 167-191
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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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- Edvinsson, Rodney B., 1971-
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Swedish GDP 1620-1800 : stagnation or Growth?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Cliometrica. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1863-2505 .- 1863-2513. ; 7:1, s. 37-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reconstructs an annual volume series of GDP and GDP per capita for Sweden within present borders 1620-1800, extending the annual series that exist from 1800 onwards. Annual fluctuations of GDP are estimated from the annual fluctuations of harvests, which in the nineteenth century were strongly correlated with each other. Long-term trends are determined based on estimates of the values added of various activities for a few benchmark years. The paper shows that the long-term trend of GDP per capita increased modestly during the studied period, a different development from real wages that fell substantially. Henceforth, available data on real wages are at best a quite weak indicator of the development of GDP per capita. If Sweden is representative of Western Europe, the new data indicate a somewhat slower growth than assumed by Maddison. The increase in GDP per capita occurred in the seventeenth century and came entirely from non-agricultural activities, especially mining, public services, trade and transports. The lack of dynamism in the aggregate economy is explained by the dominance of agriculture. Per capita agricultural production displayed a stagnating tendency. Nevertheless, the expansion of the population in the eighteenth century was largely made possible by the increased use of iron tools in agriculture. Without technological progress, the strong population growth would probably have led to decreased per capita production.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney Benjamin, 1971-
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The response of vital rates to harvest fluctuations in pre-industrial Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Cliometrica. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1863-2505 .- 1863-2513. ; 11:2, s. 245-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines whether there was a Malthusian equilibrium mechanism in Sweden in the pre-industrial period. A unique data set on harvests, deaths, marriages and births going back to 1630 is used to calculate cumulative elasticities of vital rates with respect to harvest. While earlier studies have mostly focused on the impact of real wage, this study uses the calorie content of per capita harvests as an indicator of living standards. It finds that there indeed was a response of vital rates to harvest fluctuations, but there were important structural breaks. While positive checks attenuated after 1720, preventive checks were strengthened. After 1870 preventive checks disappeared, and possibly also positive checks. The results are robust to different models and trend specifications, with one crucial difference: while the distributed lag model shows that positive checks were significant up to 1920, the SVAR model shows that positive checks disappeared after 1870.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Den mänskliga naturens politiska ekonomi : Kropotkins tillämpning av evolutionsläran på samhället
- 2012
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. - 0039-0747. ; 114:4, s. 553-574
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The political economy of human nature – Kropotkin’s application of the theory of evolution on societyThis paper presents a rational reconstruction of Kropotkin’s view on human nature, institutional change and economic development. Kropotkin shows that mutual aid among animals as well as in human society is far more important than recognized by contemporary individualist interpretation of Darwinism on society. His major contribution to political economy is that he offers an endogenous model of why institutions exist. However, his biological determinism and ethical naturalism imply that he disregard historical context, which leads him to de facto apply the perspective of historical idealism. The rise of the modern state, for example, he explains by the spread of the “idea of the state” and not by the economic development.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Den svenska konjunkturcykeln1700–2000
- 2005
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk debatt. - 0345-2646. ; 33:8, s. 16-29
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Den svenska strukturcykelmodellen
- 2010
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X .- 2002-4827. ; 130:4, s. 665-687
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Early modern copper money : multiple currencies and trimetallism in Sweden 1624-1776
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Review of Economic History. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1361-4916 .- 1474-0044. ; 16:4, s. 408-429
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 16241776, Sweden implemented a complicated trimetallic monetary system. Five different copper, silver, and gold currencies circulated. The heaviest copper coins weighed 20 kg. Greshams law worked differently for various coins. Swedish trimetallism was asymmetric. Copper money could not replace silver and gold coins. When the latter became undervalued they circulated at a premium. Due to high transaction costs in using copper coins at a premium, they were sometimes driven out when becoming dear money. However, complaints about money shortage and Swedens monopoly position at the European copper markets implied that the copper standard was not abandoned until 1777.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Foreign exchange rates in Sweden 1658-1803
- 2010
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Ingår i: Exchange rates, prices, and wages, 1277-2008. - Stockholm : Ekerlids förlag. - 9789170921247 ; , s. 291-339
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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Genmäle till Pihl och Winton
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - 0345-2646. ; 46:7, s. 55-57
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Growth, Accumulation, Crisis : With New Macroeconomic Data for Sweden 1800-2000
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation has two main objectives. The first one is to construct historical macroeconomic series for Sweden using a consistent method throughout the relevant periods, and which rely on modern methods of national accounting. The second objective is to investigate patterns of economic growth, accumulation and crisis in Sweden 1800-2000, based on the constructed data series. New annual data series of Gross Domestic Product and its division into activities (type of production) and expenditures (consumption, investment and foreign trade), Net Domestic Product, stocks of produced assets and consumption of fixed assets are constructed for the period 1800-2000; series of employment, wages, imputed labour income of self employed and surplus for the period 1850-2000; and series of worked hours for the period 1950-2000. Summary tables of the main aggregate variables are presented at the end of the dissertation. The intent is to make the data material available online (also at a more disaggregated level) at: http://www.historia.se. Although the present study criticises the somewhat deterministic vision of many long cycle theories, it also demonstrates that the concept of long cycle can be applied when studying long-term fluctuations in GDP per capita, provided that the notion of a fixed periodicity of long cycles is abandoned. Long-term economic fluctuations are irregular, but so is also the short-term business cycle. Different historical tendencies and trends are investigated. The decline of the relative size of industrial activities in the last half of 20th century was not as dramatic, if unpaid household labour is considered and that many services are industry-related. The Marxist theory of a Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall is partly confirmed as a secular process up to the 1970s, but profitability has rebounded in the last two decades of the 20th century. During the 1990s, the investment ratio declined to historically low levels and the volume value of the net stock of buildings and structures fell for the first time since the 1830s. A comparison is also made of depressions in Sweden since 1850. During the 19th century, depressions were largely induced by the agricultural sector, and during the 20th century by industrial activities. However, the transition to the modern business cycle was not sudden but rather protracted. Another finding is that the 1990s depression was somewhat deeper than the 1930s depression in terms of GDP contraction.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Harvests and grain prices in Sweden 1665-1870
- 2012
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Ingår i: Agricultural History Review. - 0002-1490. ; 60, s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the impact of harvests and international markets on Swedish grain prices, 1665-1870. The paper finds that harvests at a national level had a greater impact on domestic grain prices than international grain prices. However, at a regional level, grain prices tended to be affected more by harvests outside the region. Furthermore, in the long term, foreign prices became a more important determinant of national grain prices. The conclusion is that, under certain circumstances, grain prices can be used as an indicator of harvest fluctuations and to construct historical national accounts, at least at a sufficiently aggregated level. Such an endeavour needs to be combined with a careful analysis of the impact of prices in the surrounding area.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Inflation before paper money : debasement cycles in Sweden-Finland 1350-1594
- 2011
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 59:2, s. 166-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although high inflation is associated with the spread of paper monies, rapid price increases are well known under the metallic standard from several countries, caused by the debasement of coins. The exact mechanism is still a puzzle. If agents were rational, why did they accept inferior coins at par with better ones? This paper compares five debasement cycles that occurred in Sweden-Finland 1350-1594. During the initial phase of such cycles coins tended to circulate by-tale, while by-weight circulation was most common towards the end of the cycles. A premium on the heavier coins implied that they were not driven out of circulation. The seignorage rate was significant during the initial phases of the cycles, while it decreased when prices and exchange rates adjusted in response to the debasement, prompting a recoinage, when the monetary unit was strengthened. It is this shift from by-tale to by-weight circulation that explains the high inflation rates that could occur before the rise of paper money.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 9781107193109 - 9781108140430 ; , s. 1-25
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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Introduction to Historical Monetary and Financial Statistics for Sweden, Volume II : House Prices, Stock Returns, National Accounts, and the Riksbank Balance Sheet, 1620–2012
- 2014
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Ingår i: House prices, stock returns, national accounts and the Riksband balance sheet 1620-2012. - Stockholm : Ekerlids förlag. - 9789189612822 ; , s. 9-25
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Major recessions in Sweden 1850–2000 : From pre-capitalist to modern types of crises
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of History. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0346-8755 .- 1502-7716. ; 35:4, s. 403-426
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article uses historical national accounts to compare major recessions in Sweden from 1850 to 2000. A major recession is defined as an event when the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in one year is below the level two years earlier. The sharpest declines in GDP coincided with the World Wars, crop failures and contractionary economic policies. One important distinction to be made is between pre-capitalist and modern types of crises. While the former were crises of underproduction, brought about by declines in agriculture and consumption, the latter were overproduction crises usually generated by declines in investment and industrial production. The article shows that in Sweden the transition from the one type to the other was a prolonged process.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney
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New annual estimates of Swedish GDP, 1800-2010
- 2013
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Ingår i: Economic history review. - : Wiley. - 0013-0117 .- 1468-0289. ; 66:4, s. 1101-1126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the historical national accounts of Sweden are among the most detailed in the world, there is scope for improvement. This study revises previous historical estimates of Swedish GDP. Agricultural output is upgraded for the nineteenth century following recent research by Swedish agrarian historians on the underestimation of official statistics. Estimates of annual fluctuations before 1861 are significantly improved by using new sources on yield ratios of harvests. For manufacturing, home industries are added, in accordance with modern international guidelines (2008 SNA). The study concludes that early nineteenth-century Sweden was not as poor relative to other West European countries as previously thought.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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Prices and the growth of the knowledge economy in Sweden and Western Europe before the industrial revolution
- 2011
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 59:3, s. 250-272
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article uses long-term series of real prices for various goods and services to analyse the evolution of the knowledge economy before the Industrial Revolution by focusing on Sweden in comparison with other European countries. During the early modern period, the relative price of knowledge-intensive goods and services, such as iron, paper, salt, sea transports and silver, decreased relative to a Consumer Price Index. The increased productivity levels of these goods and services were caused by increased division of labour and accelerated diffusion of knowledge. However, the real price of foodstuff tended to increase, implying that living standards declined with increased population. Early modern Western Europe acquired a peculiar price structure, characterized by low prices of industrial goods relative to the price of food. Only with the advent of industrial society could the knowledge economy escape the Malthusian entrapment.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-
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Shadow interest rates in Stockholm and the integration of early financial markets, 1660-1685 : was Heckscher right?
- 2011
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Ingår i: Financial History Review. - : Cambridge university press. - 0968-5650 .- 1474-0052. ; 18:3, s. 309-329
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The decline of interest rates during the early modern period is considered an important factor in the subsequent rise of capitalist society. This article uses unique empirical material based on bills of exchange in Stockholm between 1660 and 1685 to estimate underlying ‘shadow interest rates’. It shows that annual rates ‘according’ to Stockholm were very high, mostly above 10 per cent, an indication of underdeveloped financial integration between Stockholm and the main European centres. There are also indications of a decline in these rates during the period studied, reflecting improved efficiency in Swedish financial markets.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney, 1971-, et al.
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Sveriges tidiga formella penningväsende
- 2015
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X .- 2002-4827. ; 135:3, s. 377-400
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Föreliggande uppsats analyserar framväxten av ett formellt penningväsende i Sverige 995–1525. Ett av de tidigaste tecknen på monetarisering inträffade under andra halvan av 1200-talet och innebar att betalningar i bevarade källor huvudsakligen anges i mynt som räknats i stället för att vägas. Skillnaden mellan ett mynts nominella värde och dess värde som silver utgjordes av slagskatt. Myntförsämringen under 1300- och 1400-talen motverkades av att silvrets köpkraft ökade kraftigt.
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Swedish harvests 1665-1820 : Early modern growth in the periphery of European economy
- 2009
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; :1, s. 2-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today, one of the greatest challenges facing macroeconomic history is to quantify economic growth in theearly modernperiod.Thisarticlepresentsand discusses a series of total and per capita harvest production in Sweden within present borders for the period 16651820. The series is based on three main indices: grain prices, subjective harvest assessments and tithes. Various sources of harvests are more reliable as indicators of relative changes than of absolute levels. For example, tithes probably only taxed between 15 and 60 per cent of the actual harvests, but seem to capture annual harvest fluctuations reasonably well. To estimate the absolute level ofpercapita harvests,the index of the per capitaharvestproduction is linked to data for the early nineteenth century, which are more reliable. The article argues that harvests stagnated during the studied period, which is in line with several other studies for various European countries. The annual fluctuations were substantial.
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Swedish Payment Systems 995–1534
- 2010
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Ingår i: Exchange Rates, Prices, and Wages, 1277-2008. - Stockholm : Ekerlids förlag. - 9789170921247 - 9789189612440 ; , s. 67-132
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