Maria Stanfors, Tobias Karlsson, Lars-Fredrik Andersson, Liselotte Eriksson
{"title":"Between voluntarism and compulsion: Membership in mutual health insurance societies in Swedish manufacturing, c. 1900","authors":"Maria Stanfors, Tobias Karlsson, Lars-Fredrik Andersson, Liselotte Eriksson","doi":"10.1111/ehr.13271","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.13271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Membership in mutual health insurance societies spread among industrial workers in the late nineteenth century. We study determinants of such membership among male workers in Swedish manufacturing by using matched employer–employee data from three industries covering all workers (i.e. members and non-members, <i>N</i> > 12 000) and firms around 1900. We find remarkably high rates of membership overall, and especially among married workers. The association between marital status and health insurance suggests that selection into health insurance societies was ‘propitious’ rather than ‘adverse’. Many workers became members well before the age of 40 years, when their health began to deteriorate, and this coincided with the average age of first marriage for men, occurring in their late twenties. Being married and having membership was more marked in firms with voluntary membership and was important for the viability of the mix of voluntary and compulsory health insurance societies emerging in Nordic countries around 1900. Findings support the idea that health insurance can attract high levels of membership under voluntary schemes and suggest why it took so long before statutory health insurance covering sickness absence and workplace accidents was introduced in Sweden.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.13271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41905755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth-century Lyon’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ehr.13258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13258","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Matringe, N., ‘Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth-century Lyon’, <i>Economic History Review</i>, 75, (2022), pp. 739−778. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13112</p><p>In the above article, In Appendix II, graph (b) was incorrectly published on page 775.</p><p>The correct graph (b) should read as follows:</p><p>(b) Inventory rebalancing (three-party transaction)</p><p></p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.13258","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50117935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Specifics of the Economic Tradition of Russian Society: from Byzantine Origins to Postindustrialism and Postmodernism","authors":"M. A. Eldin, A. A. Raslova","doi":"10.15507/2409-630x.061.019.202302.177-187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15507/2409-630x.061.019.202302.177-187","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. In the history of Russian public thought, the issues of human economic activity have been considered from time immemorial through the prism of ethics of justice. Many things have been borrowed from the practice of Byzantine religious morality of economic taxonomism. In the Byzantine patristic paradigm, economy-house-building was analyzed as a field for spiritual growth in the field of Orthodox obedience. Wealth and success were not condemned, but evaluated as a challenge to the test. At the same time, from John Chrysostom to the thinkers of Moscow Russia, the theme of economic activity was presented as serving the highest social ideals of spiritual service. In the imperial period, the problems of economic life were analyzed from the standpoint of service to the state from S. N. Bulgakov to P. B. Struve. The Soviet model of state regulation turned out to be unique and did not reproduce much the previous experience of Rus – Russia in terms of the complexity of the national economy.\u0000\u0000Material and Methods. An integrative approach combined with historical-methodological and philosophical-historical analysis is considered as a theoretical and methodological research strategy. The solution of research tasks was provided by a complex of complementary theoretical (analysis of scientific, historical literature, journalistic research on the studied problem, comparative analysis of texts, comparison, generalization) and empirical (study and generalization of normative legal documents in the concepts of caesarepapism and secularism) methods.\u0000\u0000Results. The considered model of postmodernism in terms of its understanding in the Russian economic tradition and the specifics of the national economic structure in the realities of Russian history testifies to the secondary, borrowed nature of postmodern concepts.\u0000\u0000Discussion and Conclusion. The expected effect of the actual understanding of the processes can be a properly constructed model of state-public relations, which can appear only with a balanced factor of diverse interests of actors of modern state-economic policy of Russia.","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88438357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exchange Journalism from the Position of Behavioral Finance: Economic Thinking of a Stock Market Speculator in the Beginning\u0000\u0000of the 20th Century","authors":"I. N. Galushko","doi":"10.15507/2409-630x.061.019.202302.188-196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15507/2409-630x.061.019.202302.188-196","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. Modern financial theory still wonders the degree of behavioral factors influence on the financial assets pricing. We assume that it necessary to consider this problem within the framework of historical and economic science, since exchange prices are widely used in modern research as a historical source. Turning to the materials of professional stock exchange journalism, in this article we sought to determine how market participants described the pricing mechanism and how their market behavior were built in accordance with these analytical settings.\u0000\u0000Materials and Methods. We chose the book “Political, economic and financial issues of recent times” as our main source. That work includes analytical articles by I. P. Manus (1860–1918), a well-known stock speculator who made a millionth fortune on the Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange.\u0000\u0000Results. I. P. Manus’s articles demonstrate how the practice of economic analysis of financial markets combines a rational assessment of the financial results with taking into account “inefficient”, speculative price factors. In our source we trace the idea of uncertainty that cannot be overcome by formal analysis methods. All of that actualizes the need to use the methodology of behavioral finance when working with financial history materials.\u0000\u0000Discussion and Conclusion. We believe that it is not entirely correct for our material to draw a rigid methodological boundary between “behavioral” and “rational”. If we use the terminology of social history, it is much more effective to consider these concepts in their complex interaction, which forms a special “frame” of financial practice of the early 20th century.","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90400965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}