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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
- 2011
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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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An early-modern consumer revolution in the Baltic?
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0346-8755 .- 1502-7716. ; 35:2, s. 177-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)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
- 2012
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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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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Atlantic Early-Modern Migrations and Economic Globalization
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781444351071
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay will focus on the main causes of the voluntary and involuntary transatlantic migration during the early-modern era, the patterns of the migration, as well as the consequences it had.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Balancing the Baltic trade: colonial commodities in the trade on the Baltic , 1773-1856
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - 0358-5522. ; 58:3, s. 188-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper attempts to look at the connection between the Atlantic and the Baltic economies during the transition from early modern to the modern era. Previous research has seriously underestimated the importance of colonial commodities traded on the Baltic during this period. Colonial commodities, particularly from the American plantation complex, became ever more important for the Western European balance of payments on the Baltic. Already by the late 18th century, these commodities were on aggregate worth approximately as much as the exports of strategic commodities such as grains or iron from the Baltic at the same time. By the middle of the 19th century, the value of colonial commodities imported to the region far surpassed the value of such key exports from the Baltic. The colonial commodities thus constituted an important part of the balance of payments for the trade on the Baltic.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Climate, conflicts and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple crops
- 2014
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Ingår i: Economic history review. - : Wiley. - 0013-0117. ; 67:4, s. 1065-1088
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Very little is known about the dynamics of pre-colonial markets in Africa. In this paper, a new set of data-series on the pre-colonial price of staple crops on the Gold Coast is presented. Six hypotheses on the behavior of market prices, found in the previous literature, are tested in the paper. The results show conclusively that the market prices did respond to shifts in demand and supply, for example from climate-induced scarcity, or to external shocks such as war. It is argued that the markets studied seem to have been remarkably well-functioning, given the socio-economic and political context they were operating in.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Climate, conflicts and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple crops
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Ingår i: Svenska Ekonomisk-Historiska Mötet 2013, Lund 4-5 Oktober 2013.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Very little is known about the dynamics of pre-colonial markets in Africa. In this paper, a new set of data-series on the pre-colonial price of staple crops on the Gold Coast is presented. Six hypotheses on the behavior of market prices, found in the previous literature, are tested in the paper. The results show conclusively that the market prices did respond to shifts in demand and supply, for example from climate-induced scarcity, or to external shocks such as war. It is argued that the markets studied seem to have been remarkably well-functioning, given the socio-economic and political context they were operating in.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Consumers and slavery: diversified markets for plantation produce and the survival of slavery in the 19th century
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Ingår i: Fernand Braudel Center Review. - 0147-9032. ; 33:1, s. 69-88
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Market demand for plantation produce was crucial for the survival of American slavery in the 19th century. De-colonisation opened up for increasingly complex geographical patterns of trade for the American producers of these crops. This paper estimates quantitatively the ‘materialized labour’ necessary for the consumption of these goods, in order to show the impact of developing markets upon the institution of slavery. The paper finds that the production of goods for semiperipheral markets in Europe, such as the Baltic, required the labour of some 200,000 slaves annually by the middle of the 19th century.
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