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Past, present and future : economic history in Eli F Heckscher's footsteps

ISBN 9789189137998 · häftad
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[Farsta] : Erik Lakomaa; [Stockholm] : EHFF Institute for Economic and Business History Research; Vulkan, 2020, [2020]
323 sidor
Erik Lakomaa (ed.)
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Over the last decades great advances have been made in economic and business history. Many of the topics in contemporary research are however timeless and were the in the spotlight already in Eli F Heckscher's time (1879–1952). This book by a group of international scholars in economic history and economics offers contributions across a wide range of current research and debates in economic and business history, including trade, family business, transport history, inter-firm networks, economic growth and financial markets. It also offers theoretical and methodological contributions, including the impact on digitalization on economic history research. The volume is of value to students and researchers in economic history, economics, history, management and others concerned with the latest perspectives in economic and business history.

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Economic and buiness history : past, present, and future / Erik Lakomaa -- Globalization, economics, and history / Ronald Findlay & Mats Lundahl -- Women in early financial markets / Elise M. Dermineur -- Markets, institutions, technology, and the beloved entrepreneur : biographical impact on business history / Anders Perlinge -- Erik Dahmén and the Swedish Growth School / Nils Karlson -- Methodological issues when estimating inequality from probate inventories : undervaluation and negative wealth / Håkan Lindgren -- A business network of early globalization : Glückstadt, Wallenberg, and the Russian-East Asian finacial syndicate in 1898 / Martin Jes Iversen -- Profitable struggle : consumer cooperatives' investments in cartelized industies in the 1929s and their impact / Bengt Åke Berg -- No return cargo : the emergence of 'industrial shipping' in Finnish paper industry exports in the 1970s / Jari Ojala -- The making and breaking of interlocking directorships between banks and industry in Sweden, 1918-1924 / Jan Ottosson -- The state and the family business in Spain / Paloma Fernández Pérez & Aurelia Hernández

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Erik Lakomaa, 1977- (Editor)
Identifier
ISBN 9789189137998 · häftad
Title resource
Past, present and future : economic history in Eli F Heckscher's footsteps
Creative responsibility statement
Erik Lakomaa (ed.)
publication
[Farsta] : Erik Lakomaa; [Stockholm] : EHFF Institute for Economic and Business History Research; Vulkan, 2020, [2020]
copyright
©2020
Extent
323 sidor
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  • S. 7-38 Economic and business history - past, present, and future /Erik Lakomaa, S. 39-74 Globalization, economics, and history / Ronald Findlay & Mats Lundahl, S. 75-106 Women in early financial markets /Elise M Dermineur, S. 107-120 Markets, institutions, technology, and the beloved entrepreneur: Biographical impact on business history / Anders Perlinge, S. 121-136 Erik Dahmén and the Swedish Growth School / Nils Karlson, S.137-178 Methodological issues when estimating inequality from probate inventories : Undervaluation and negative wealth / Håkan Lindgren, S. 205-240 Profitable struggle : Consumer cooperatives´investments in cartelized industries in the 1920s and their impact / Bengt Åke Berg
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4h928s4m23wkjpt1

Library specific information (holding)

  • Högskolan i Jönköping, biblioteket (Jon)

    Subject
    Ekonomisk historia, Economic history
  • Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, biblioteket (Sha)

    Subject
    Economic history, Business history
  • Linköpings universitetsbibliotek (Li)

    Immediate acquisition
    Pliktex.