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- Andersson-Skog, Lena, 1959-
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National patterns and the regulation of railways and telephony in the Nordic Countries up to 1950
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Scandinavian society for economic and social history and historical geography. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 48:2, s. 30-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has been suggested that the railways, as the first national industrialization project, became role models for public regulatory solutions in other industries in the same country. However, it still has to be explored if the institutional arrangements have actually been transferred from the railways to other industries. Comparative country analysis may increase our understanding of how institutions changes and eventually are ‘inherited’ by other industries. In this paper the question of whether or not the bias of the railway policy in the various Nordic countries found its way into a later emerging network industry, the telephone industry is discussed. The result shows that even as similar railway regulations emerged in the Nordic countries from the 1920s, the regulation of the telephone industries did not emerge along the same lines. Here, two different regulatory trajectories were established, one in Sweden and Norway and another one in Denmark and Finland. Here other factors such as for instance political bargaining power and national and regional development strategies must be taken into consideration.
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- Dribe, Martin, et al.
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Information, trust and the diffusion of smallpox vaccination : The Case of Scania in Sweden, 1802–1835
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 51:1, s. 9-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study deals with the diffusion of a new medical technology — vaccination against smallpox — in nineteenth-century Scania in Sweden. Using an aggregated sample of parishes as well as a micro-level dataset for four parishes, we investigate the socioeconomic as well as the geographical patterns of diffusion of vaccination in the province. We also relate the adoption of vaccination across geographical areas, as well as across social groups, to the availability of information, ability to acquire and process this information, and to levels of social capital and trust in society. Our results point to the conclusion that while vaccination spread very quickly geographically after its introduction, there were considerable differences between social groups. The better situated, betted educated, landholding peasants were more ready to adopt the new technology of smallpox vaccination. This had little to do with better access to economic resources as vaccination in general was provided free of charge. Instead we hypothesize that it was related to a higher ability to acquire and utilize the information available, and/or a higher level of trust in the authorities among these peasants.
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- Karlsson, Birgit, 1952
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Neutrality and free trade: Sweden and trade liberalisation 1948-1958
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review 2004. - 0358-5522. ; 52:2/3, s. 39-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the Swedish attitude to European economic cooperation, which has been described as reluctant. The traditional explanation for this has been Swedish neutrality. This explanation has been challenged by researchers, who have claimed that a nationally self-sufficient social democracy is responsible for reluctance to Europe. In this article, neutrality is still seen as the main explanatory factor. Strategies for setting about European integration were formed which linked the concepts of neutrality and global free trade. Nordic cooperation was also seen as a strategy to meet demands for European integration. Swedish activities within the European organisations were limited by neutrality concerns. Within these limits Sweden worked for economic policy solutions, which might be called social democratic.
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