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- Ericsson, Peter, 1963-, et al.
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Liquidating government debt and creating a secondary asset market : Trading patterns, market behavior and prices on government liabilities in Sweden, c. 1719–1765
- 2023
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Ingår i: Financial History Review. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0968-5650 .- 1474-0052. ; 30:3, s. 355-379
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article studies a previously unknown asset market in eighteenth-century Sweden. It emerged as a result of a partial default in 1719, when large amounts of recently released fiat coins were converted into government liabilities. These could only be redeemed as a customs duty on international trade, the licent. As merchants had to acquire such assets to conduct their trade, tens of thousands of transactions were carried out on a secondary market over a period for over 45 years. Networks of local merchants bought assets from initial holders and sold them on to intermediaries or merchants, who deposited the liabilities with a newly established government agency, the Debt Office. Here, hundreds of account holders could transfer the value of their deposits between them. When a licent payment was due, the amount was deducted from the merchant's account. Prices on the liabilities were low and sometimes volatile, bu the long-term trend was rising. We have distinguished three types of market participants: a small group of very active users, most of them professional dealers or brokers; merchants who traded on a regular basis as they needed to pay the licent, or when a favorable opportunity appeared; and finally, those who traded sporadically. The emergence of this market was part of a financial expansion that occurred in many European countries at the same time, the closest equivalent being the segmented default in France after the abolition of John Law's system. This study aims to broaden our understanding of eighteenth-century developments, which have rarely been studied in a semi-peripheral European economy.
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- Isacsson, Alexander, 1993-
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Defining Dukeship : The Problem of Royal Spares and Dynasty Formation in Sweden, 1556-1622
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book examines how dukeship – the position of being a duke – was defined and negotiated in Sweden between the late 1550s and the early 1620s. The aim is to shed light on how the structural problem of royal spares, with dukes as pillars and perils of hereditary monarchy, influenced politics and the integration process of a ruling house. Through an institutional biography approach and a critical perspective on dynasty, the book considers how dukes, kings, and their associates interacted with dukeship by making claims to define its meaning, norms, and im-plications. These claims are seen as expressions of self-identification, categorisation, and legitimation, which are linked to processes of dynastic securing, centralisation, decentralisation, participation, and distanc-ing. In the study, a wide range of sources are examined: testaments, genealogies, ceremonial instructions and accounts, oaths, letters, Diet minutes and statutes, marriage contracts, speeches, sermons, court articles, and the material culture of burial sites. The book shows the diverse ways in which dukeship was continuously negotiated for as long as the ducal positions existed. The malleability and pervasiveness of structures and norms that characterised dukeship and its practices of negotiation are uncovered. The study also demonstrates how notions of lineages and houses – or dynasty – functioned as a symbolic resource in the political bargaining of rulership. The negotiation of dukeship was thus an integral part of the early modern bargaining state and shaped early modern integration processes of the state as well as the royal house. The critical dynastic perspective on dukeship challenges views of the early modern period and its political practices derived from purely statist outlooks. The study compels historians to critically rethink concepts, chronologies, and causes of change that are commonly invoked to make sense of early modern politics and integration processes.
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- Malmström, Joakim, et al.
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Eliter i historien : en inledning
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Ingår i: Med börd, svärd och pengar. - Uppsala : Historiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet. - 9150616560 ; , s. 5-16
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- Pihl, Christopher, 1982-, et al.
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Några reflektioner kring ett 350-årsjubileum
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 46:6, s. 57-61
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