Book releases
Books released 2024 by researchers at the Department of Economic History.
Money Doctors Around the Globe A Historical Perspective
- Discuss money doctors’ aims, strategies, and consequences with new evidence and angles
- Explore a large number of money troubles cases around the globe throughout modern history
- Focus on money doctors who diagnose troubles in monetary and financial system
This book focuses on worldwide historical experiences of monetary reforms and the reformist minds behind them: the money doctors. The process of doctoring is the process of listening to many pieces of information and sorting them in order to correctly diagnose the causes of the problem and derive the appropriate cure, if it exists. A money doctor is “a person who, helped by theoretical and practical knowledge, advises and/or proposes to act on how to build a stable monetary and financial system or to repair ongoing monetary turbulences.” Economists and policy makers are money doctors when their involvement includes the observation and diagnostic of the monetary and financial troubles and the proposition for a cure. Each contribution highlights the theoretical underpinning of the doctors, and the key factors for the success or failures of the reform they have promoted.
We collect cases from Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania from the 16th to the 20th century anddiscuss their aims, strategies, and consequences to draw implications for today.
Author: Anders Ögren, co-authored with Andrés Álvarez, Vincent Bignon och Masato Shizume.
Publisher: Springer Nature Link
Part of book series: Studies in Economic History (SEH)
Money Doctors Around the Globe: A Historical Perspective | SpringerLink
Upsala Nya Tidning. Ägande och engagemang
Author: Mats Larsson
Publisher: Dialogos Förlag
This book analyses how the owners and management have acted to preserve and strengthen the newspaper's power position over the past seventy years in line with the transformation of the media market.
Over the past three decades, the Swedish media market has undergone a complete transformation. Deregulation of the market, improved printing technology, and computerisation have created a new situation for newspapers and other media. The internet has opened new avenues for news information, leading to decreased interest in printed newspapers and falling circulation numbers. This has put significant pressure on the newspaper industry, resulting in rationalisation, mergers, and closures.
The book examines how the owners and management of Upsala Nya Tidning have acted to maintain and possibly strengthen the newspaper's market position from the 1950s to the early 2020s. After several successful decades, the newspaper faced significant transformation demands in the late 1990s, prompting the owners and management to engage in handling the new situation and ensuring the newspaper's long-term survival. A key question in the book is what it has meant for the newspaper to be owned by several different foundations.
Amerikas svenska banker
An unknown story about how a number of financial entrepreneurs of Swedish origin established banks and created their own niche in the emerging American banking system.
They founded banks that catered to newly arrived Swedish immigrants. Some banks, such as the Swedish-American Bank of Minneapolis, were successful and attracted thousands of customers, contributing to economic and financial development. Other banks were more short-lived and were accused of deliberately deceiving the new immigrants out of their savings.
This book presents a new perspective on what happened when over a million Swedes emigrated to the USA at the turn of the 20th century, and how important access to financial services is for successful integration into a new society.
Svensk varuhandel under 200 år
This book gives you an overview of Swedish trade history over two centuries, from 1720 to 1920. It covers both institutional conditions and dominant forms of trade, such as wholesale and retail, in cities and rural areas, with examples from various industries.
The book is divided into two chronological parts. The period 1720 to 1850 is known as proto-industrial trade, with roots in medieval economy. In cities, there were wholesalers, retailers, and craftsmen, with goods sold at markets. Despite trade being prohibited in rural areas, farm trade, peasant trade, and markets still existed. Significant institutional changes occurred towards the end of the 1700s, culminating in 1846 when the guild system was dissolved and rural trade was finally permitted.
The second period in the book, 1850 to 1920 is known as the trade of the industrial society. This period saw numerous economic freedom reforms and other legislative changes necessary for the emerging industrial society. Storefronts, department stores, mail-order companies, and consumer cooperatives emerged. Advertising and branding became prominent. While older forms of trade persisted, they declined in importance. There were no longer any restrictions on establishing businesses, even in rural areas, and almost all forms of trade, except department stores, were now conducted outside cities as well.