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Rönnbäck, Klas,1974Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle,Department of Economy and Society
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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730-1800
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2020-09-21
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Informa UK Limited,2022
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/297879
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2020.1809511DOI
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-185272URI
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The narrative of the Swedish East India Company (SEIC) is a well-known part of Sweden's eighteenth century history. The company is known as a profitable venture, the only successful chartered company in Sweden, but with a limited impact upon the country's economic development. In this paper, we employ a value-chain analysis to estimate the Swedish East India trade's magnitude in terms of value-added. The results show that the success of the company was not based on monopolised domestic market in Sweden, a typical strategy of big chartered companies. The most valuable line of SEIC's business (Chinese teas) was rather based on re-exports to other countries in Europe. Our quantitative estimates also show that the Swedish East India trade eventually made up a non-negligible share, and in particular a major share of the transport and trade sectors, of the Swedish economy during a long part of the eighteenth century.
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Müller, Leos,1962-Stockholms universitet,Historiska institutionen(Swepub:su)lml
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Göteborgs universitetInstitutionen för ekonomi och samhälle
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In:Scandinavian Economic History Review: Informa UK Limited70:1, s. 1-180358-55221750-2837
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