Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2024.2332336
Ola Honningdal Grytten, Viktoriia Koilo
Writers on Norwegian economic history often claim that industries related to the sea played a major role in the Norwegian economy for centuries. However, little has been done to quantify this secto...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2024.2330352
Jonatan Svanlund
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《斯堪的纳维亚经济史评论》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2024.2314304
Anu Mai Köll
What has happened to the economic history in and about the three Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after independence in 1991? The survey includes problem areas researched, the reinter...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2023.2290490
Alexandra L. Cermeño
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于《斯堪的纳维亚经济史评论》（2023 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2023.2279215
Henrik Forsberg, Magnus Bohman
In 1867–1868 northern Sweden suffered from a famine that has not gained much scholarly interest. Here we study how this famine was relieved in Västerbotten county. We use unique regional and local ...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2023.2276931
Matleena Frisk
"Cash flow: the businesses of menstruation." Scandinavian Economic History Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
“现金流:月经的生意。”斯堪的纳维亚经济史评论，印前(印前)，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2023.2276932
Gjermund Forfang Rongved
The Scandinavian Monetary Union (SMU) of Denmark, Sweden and Norway has been labelled ‘the most successful of the pre-World War I monetary unions’. It functioned smoothly throughout the first era of globalisation but is considered to have disintegrated during the Great War. However, attempts at rebuilding the union in the interwar years, in a spirit of increased intra-Scandinavian central bank cooperation, have been overlooked. In fact, the Scandinavian central banks frequently convened trying to re-establish the SMU. This paper is the first comprehensive account of these efforts. Based on archival material from these three central banks, it will answer questions on three different levels of analysis: How did the central banks consider future cooperation through the union despite interwar economic turmoil? As ending the leading symbol of Scandinavian cooperation would be politically costly, was it the central banks or governments who were the main actors in re-establishing the union? Given both the need to balance between national primacy and to cooperate to counter economic turmoil, and the fact that all Scandinavian countries followed suit as England abandoned gold in 1931, how are we to consider aspects such as isolationism versus cooperation and small state behaviour versus great power policies?
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Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2023.2268624
Rolf Aaberge, Erik Bengtsson
ABSTRACTThis paper surveys Nordic historic studies on the distribution of income to highlight similarities and differences between Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in the evolution of income concentration and income inequality over more than 140 years. Our descriptive analysis allows for a decomposition where we identify the contribution of the income share of the richest 1 per cent and the distribution of income among the other 99 per cent to overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient. The results show that the evolution of income concentration and inequality can be characterised by episodes rather than by secular cycles, which means that the evolution can neither be summarised by Kuznets’ inverse U nor by a U. The evidence on the role played by the share of the top 1 per cent for overall income inequality shows to be mixed and to vary across time and countries.KEYWORDS: InequalityincomesScandinaviaJEL: CODES: D31N33N34 AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Jesper Roine, Petri Roikonen, Jakob Søgaard and Daniel Waldenström for sharing the data that has been used to produce the figures presented in this paper. We would also like to thank the editor Paul Sharp and three anonymous referees at SEHR for useful comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Ólafsson and Kristjánsson (Citation2017) provide estimates of the share of the top 1 per cent for two years between the world wars (1927 and 1936) and for the period 1992–2017, while estimates of overall inequality measured by the Gini coefficient are only available for the recent three decades.2 Flodström was a crucial actor in the creation of modern economic statistics in Sweden. See Hellroth (Citation2011) for a study which discusses the role of Flodström.3 For the city of Stockholm 1870–1970 Bengtsson and Molinder (Citation2022) have been able to calculate both individual and household level inequality measures. However, they show to yield remarkably similar results.4 The top income approach of course has its clear proponents, most notably Piketty. See Piketty’s (Citation2014, pp. 246–268) discussion of top income shares versus overall measures of inequality like the Gini coefficient.5 Note that the Gini coefficient can be interpreted as the ratio between the average pairwise income differences in the population and twice the mean income, which means that the Gini coefficient becomes equal to 0 if and only if all population units have equal income. The other extreme is attained if and only if one unit receives the total income. In this case the Gini coefficient takes the value 1. When the Gini coefficient is equal to 0.5 then the average income difference is equal to the mean income.6 Nolan et al. (Citation2019, p. 1290) concur, arguing that «increases in inequality have often occurred in discrete ‘episodes’ rather than in a consistent fashion over time».7 To further explore the role of the financial sector an
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2023.2259909
Adomas Klimantas
This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the GDP time series for inter-war Lithuania, tracking the country's annual performance from 1919 until its incorporation into the USSR in 1940, and situating Lithuania within the wider East-Central European economic landscape. The research provides robust evidence that, contrary to prior beliefs, Lithuania was a stagnant economy, resembling other newly established agricultural states such as Estonia and Poland in terms of its GDP growth rate. By 1940, Lithuania remained on the economic periphery of Europe, yet it demonstrated significant resilience during the Great Depression, with no contraction in its GDP per capita between 1929 and 1938. This paper helps fill one of the remaining gaps in Europe's historical national accounts, making it an essential resource for analysing the divergent growth patterns in East-Central Europe.
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