Browsing by Author "Rönnbäck, Klas"
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Commerce and colonisation : studies of early modern merchant capitalism in the Atlantic economy
Rönnbäck, Klas (2010-01-19)This dissertation consists of four chapters which study early modern merchant capitalism, with a special focus upon the developing Atlantic economy. The introductory chapter is followed by chapter 2, studying the issue ... -
Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River - A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve 1895-2000
Granér, Staffan; Rönnbäck, Klas (2011-10)Because of a growing population and industrialization, total pollution levels in many water-courses around the world have increased considerably for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the last few decades, however, ... -
The failed promise of freedom: Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
Theodoridis, Dimitrios; Rönnbäck, Klas; Galli, Stefania (2024-01)Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were ex-slaves’ prospects to improve their socioeconomic status after emancipation? To shed some light on these ... -
Flexibility and protectionism. Swedish trade in sugar during the early modern era
Rönnbäck, Klas (2006)Sugar was of the utmost importance for the development of a transatlantic trade during the early modern era. This working paper explores the impact of institutions and institutional changes of the colonial trade in sugar ... -
From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th centuries
Rönnbäck, Klas (2007-11-12)This paper will focus upon the Swedish consumption of sugar, a product that illustrates the shift from being a luxury to being a mass-consumed commodity. Very little attention has been paid to the commodity of sugar by ... -
Mortality among European settlers in pre-colonial West Africa: The “White Man’s Grave” revisited
Öberg, Stefan; Rönnbäck, Klas (2016-08)We have created the first longitudinal dataset following European employees of the English Royal African Company during their time in West Africa, 1683–1766. The mortality was catastrophically high with limited geographical ... -
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s
Rönnbäck, Klas; Galli, Stefania; Theodoridis, Dimitrios (2024-02)In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to acquire, and how this changed following emancipation, is not well known. We ... -
The price of sugar in Sweden : Data, source & methods
Rönnbäck, Klas (2007-11-08)This paper presents a new price series for sugar in Sweden, or more exactly Stockholm, in a long-term perspective (1624–1900). Prior to this, no price data has been available from Sweden for this commodity. The paper is ... -
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
Galli, Stefania; Rönnbäck, Klas; Theodoridis, Dimitrios (2023-07)In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a full population in ... -
Slavery, Resistance and Repression: A Quantitative Empirical Investigation
Rönnbäck, Klas; Theodoridis, Dimitrios; Galli, Stefania (2024-03)In this article, we study what individual and social characteristics made it more likely for an individual to resist slavery. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which allows us to ... -
The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run
Rönnbäck, Klas; Galli, Stefania; Theodoridis, Dimitrios; Faust Larsen, Kathrine (2024-02)It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture. We contribute with a study on the wealth distribution in a ... -
Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914
Galli, Stefania; Theodoridis, Dimitrios; Rönnbäck, Klas (2024-03)The issue of how elites as a social group come to be, how they maintain their position and how they affect the society they come to control is very much at the centre of the inequality debate. The present paper studies ...