Todaj, m-an US lawmakers assume that coexistence is the opdmalpath fonard and are
crafting legal; guardrails under that assumpion. We argue that lawmakers should instead …

Purpose This paper aims to trace and/or historicise modernisation as a conceptual
framework from the antecedents to present times. It also highlights the recent and past …

We studied the implementation of banking regulation in Sweden from the origin of the
commercial banking system until the important Banking Act of 1911. We also looked at the …

This paper studies the Swedish experience of the international crisis of 1907, which is often
compared with the crisis of 2008. By constructing a new dataset from previously unanalyzed …

Currency unions have been a recurring phenomenon in monetary history. The most basic
definition of a currency union is when two or more sovereign nations share a common …

Mortality differentials by socioeconomic status (SES) are among the most pervasive facts of
contemporary demography. However, while the mortality gradient by income, class and …

Research on financial revolutions has gained increased attention in the last ten years.
Previously focused exclusively on the breakthroughs of financial centers such as the …

This article aims to retrace the extent of single women's engagement in the credit market. To
this end, it relies on a series of more than 1,900 probate inventories drawn up between 1790 …

The working of the gold standard is surrounded by interpretations and explanations based
on theory. The most fundamental of these is the idea of central banks and their monetary …

This article explores the process of the formalisation of the Swedish financial market,
through an analysis of commercial bank lending in the late nineteenth and early twentieth …