Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2130974
Ola Innset
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2130975
Markus Lampe
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2121750
Nina Boberg-Fazlić
{"title":"Kolonisterne – kartoffeltyskerne i Gl. Tønder Amt [The colonists – potato Germans in Old Tønder Amt]","authors":"Nina Boberg-Fazlić","doi":"10.1080/03585522.2022.2121750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2022.2121750","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43624,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47420239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2121752
S. Ville
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2121753
Sergio Tonatiuh Serrano Hernandez
the latter from the 1990s. Geographical coverage of the volume is pretty good although perhaps we learn less about the plight of Bolivia than the other four nations, which is a bit disappointing given it appears to be the poorest performer. The introduction plays a useful role in connecting the work to some of the broader literature. However, it might have provided a more robust empirical framework for the nations being compared, particularly in the form of some of the relevant comparative statistics of their performance and sectoral spread. Some of that material comes out in different chapters but an overarching presentation at the beginning would have been helpful. The conclusion, though, was clear in highlighting many of the principal findings of the study. One area that might have featured more extensively is the role of imperial and quasi-imperial relations in shaping the broader environment and sets of institutions against which the natural resource industries operated. Finally, while the chapters were generally well presented, copy editing for errors in syntax and grammar could have been somewhat sharper. Overall, though, this book constitutes an important contribution to understanding the contrasting plight of different resource-based economies. It is a further historical nail in the coffin of the resource curse school. For some economies natural resources have clearly been a boon, but the overall message is the correct one, ‘Natural resources are not destiny’ (p. 6). There are many other factors driving the economic development of nations as this study has very ably demonstrated.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2113126
E. Lindberg
This article analyses late 1960s ’ and early 1970s ’ policy debate on issues concerning balance of payments in Sweden. Part of this debate was the question of fi scal austerity as a tool to achieve external balance, and if it could be used without risking economic and social unrest. The aim is twofold: fi rst to empirically shine new light on modern Swedish economic policy in a historic context. Second to theoretically explore new ways of interpreting the relationship between political thinking and economic ideas. Special focus within the second aim are the consequences of political thinking on Keynesian economic ideas as a framework of economic understanding at the time. The study is qualitative in its methods and pays attention to limits within the relationship between economic policymaking and economic expertise. The article highlights con fl icting perspectives on Keynesian ideas and the heterogeneity of these perspectives among economic experts. A heterogeneity of this kind is also shown to complicate the assumed close relationship between Social Democracy and Keynesianism in a historic context. In essence, the article shows that studying policy debates in close historic detail makes for new conclusions on the development of modern economic ideas and the part political thinking plays in it.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2021.1932574
Arne Kaijser
social advancement in Sweden. However, the focus on engineers also has its drawbacks. It may give a false image of the crucial role of ‘heroic inventors’ – even if Wetterberg emphasises that these inventors relied heavily on many colleagues and collaborators. It also foregrounds the producers of technology rather than its users. In the past decades, much research within the history of technology has focused on users and their often creative and unforeseen ways of using and developing technologies. Moreover, as most Swedish engineers have been and still are men, the book is largely a male story, while a focus also on users would have given women a more prominent role. Wetterberg is an excellent narrator and his book has many nice illustrations which make it very inviting to read. It has the potential to become a best seller like his earlier books. I believe it can serve well as a textbook at both university history departments and engineering schools, and maybe even as supplementary reading for ambitious high school students. Moreover, it may attract the interest of many of Sweden’s many professional engineers (Wetterberg presents the numbers: 300,000 Swedes have a higher technical education, of which 22% are women) as well as the ‘general public’. Finally, yet importantly, for the readers of this journal, it may be rewarding to read for Scandinavian historians as it gives a good introduction to much of the recent research.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2106300
P. Håkansson, T. Karlsson, Matti La Mela
ABSTRACT Youth labour remained important well into the twentieth century, although it is often elusive in traditional sources. In this article, we investigate messengers – a category of occupational titles, including errand and office boys, which is thought of as youth jobs. We sketch the long-term development of the occupation by making use of digitised Swedish daily newspapers and discuss demand-side, supply-side and institutional factors for the disappearance of the occupation. Our investigation suggests that the messenger jobs reached their peak around 1945 and thereafter decreased to low levels in the 1960s. We find that employers looking for messengers were large organisations that needed in-house help with deliveries and simple office tasks. These employers originally aimed at young men aged 15–17 years. The minimum age requirement was not loosened over time; instead, employers began to announce for older workers. We interpret this as employers’ adapting to a situation where the supply of young messengers had decreased. Employers made their ads appealing by emphasising good working conditions and career prospects, indicating that there was still a demand for messengers despite the changing times.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-04DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2106301
Zenonas Norkus, D. Jasilionis, Ola Grytten, Ilmārs Mežs, M. Klesment
This paper is the fi rst comparative analysis of mortality transition, as part of the demographic transition, in all the three Baltic countries during the interwar period. We address the following research questions: Which type of mortality transition is exempli fi ed by the interwar Baltic countries ’ mortality patterns? Was the mortality transition completed already before WWII? What were Baltic cross-country di ff erences in the advancement of mortality and demographic transitions? We present and use newly constructed life tables for Lithuania, 1925 – 1934, and draw on the work of the Estonian demographer Kalev Katus (1955 – 2008), publishing for the fi rst time his life tables for Latvia in 1925 – 1938. Main fi ndings: The three countries were part of the Western model of mortality transition. However, the reduction of infant and childhood mortality was lagging in Lithuania. Women of childbearing age in Estonia and mainland Latvia, as a result of earlier fertility decline, experienced longer life expectancy due to the decreased mortality from birth complications. Nevertheless, in all three countries mortality transition was still incomplete by WWII. A comparison of death causes in 1925 – 1939 serves to corroborate the last conclusion.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2022.2085166
Matteo Pompermaier
ABSTRACT In the Swedish context, fairly little is known about the variation in the level and composition of female wealth over the long term. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap, emphasising the main features of unmarried women's wealth and assessing how it evolved during the second half of the nineteenth century. To this end, the study relies on a sample of about 500 probate inventories drawn up in the city of Uppsala between 1850 and 1910. The second half of the nineteenth century was a period of transformation encompassing several aspects of Swedish society. The change included the economic and financial structure of the country, as well as the legal framework and the labour market. The research proves that unmarried women's wealth increased in the period here analysed, even though dissimilarly between spinsters and widows. Their wealth changed also from a qualitative point of view, as shown by the increasing presence of specific assets such as real estate and stocks recorded in their inventories. Among the several factors that can be retraced at the origins of this phenomenon, the development of a more equal legal framework and the evolution of the housing market seemed to have played a major role.
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