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From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th centuries
(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 ...
Social Bodies. Family and Community Level Influences on Height and Weight, Southern Sweden 1818-1968
(2014-03-13)
This dissertation consists of an introduction, four research papers and one paper describing the data I collected for the studies and how I conducted the study. I collected information on men from conscript inspection lists ...
Fiscal Federalism, Interjurisdictional Externalities and Overlapping Policies
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-09)
In this paper, we analyze the effects of the interaction between national and local policies designed to reduce an environmental externality that causes environmental damages both nationally and locally. We formulate a ...
The Changing Structure of Swedish Foreign Aid
(2016-03)
The study investigates how the composition and character of aid of Swedish aid has changed over
time, and what effects these changes have had for the potential to realize key aspects of the Paris agenda such as ownership, ...
Pushed into Unemployment, Pulled into Retirement: Facing Old Age in Gothenburg, 1923-1943
(2015-02)
Along with rapid growth and improved standards of living, the first decades of the twentieth
century saw the introduction of new technology and new ways to organize production. There are
contrasting views on what impact ...
Competition in the Swedish coffee market, 1978–2002
(Elsevier, 2007)
Are multinationals exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for imports of coffee beans? The purpose of this study is to address this issue ...
The changing role and importance of the built environment for daily travel in Sweden
(2015-05-19)
Geography, in terms of the built environment and location patterns, was traditionally, and still is, emphasized by many scholars, policymakers, and planners as greatly influencing people’s daily travel behaviour. However, ...
Kartellen som sprängdes. Svensk bryggeriindustri under institutionell och strukturell omvandling 1945–1975
(2006)
Kartellen som sprängdes. The Swedish brewing industry during institutional and structural change 1945 – 1975. (Publications of the Department of Economic history, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, ...
Understanding recreational landscapes. Developing a knowledge base on outdoor recreation monitoring in Swedish coastal and marine areas.
(2016-12-16)
This PhD thesis concerns the role and importance of outdoor recreation monitoring in the management of coastal and marine areas in Sweden – a topic that in spite its importance has eluded attention, both in research circles ...