ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS Uppsala Studies in Economic History, 82
ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS Uppsala Studies in Economic History, 82 Omslagsbild: Nina Hemmingsson Karin Ågren Köpmannen i Stockholm Grosshandlares ekonomiska och sociala strategier under 1700-talet Dissertation presented at Uppsala University to be publicly examined in Hörsal 2, Ekonomi- kum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala, Friday, December 14, 2007 at 10:15 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The examination will be conducted in Swedish. Abstract Ågren, K. 2007. Köpmannen i Stockholm. Grosshandlares ekonomiska och sociala strategier under 1700-talet. (The Merchant of Stockholm. Wholesalers’ economic and social strategies during the eighteenth century). Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Studies in Economic History 82. 276 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7030-2. The purpose of this thesis has been to describe and explain why wholesalers in Stockholm during the eighteenth century acted as they did. This analysis is built on the idea that peoples’ possibilities to act depends on the context in which they live and the person’s network. The starting-point for the analysis is an old discussion if the merchants made any difference in the transformation of society; were they a dynamic element or not? In this thesis wholesalers’ social and economic relations are studied from different view- points: how they married, how their credit network was built up, and what they consumed. The wholesalers are divided into groups depending on their income. The materials used are inventories, parish registers, registers of tax-payments and biographical books The research shows that the differences in behaviour were small between the income groups. Most of the wholesalers married daughters of other merchants, they lent money to their own family, and they consumed more or less in the same way.
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