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Scandinavian Economic History Review

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The editors of @ScanEconHisRev are pleased to announce the publication of issues 3/2021 - a special issue on Agriculture and economic development, https://t.co/WNCaSfLSkq

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[...] the article adds [..] to our understanding of the German administration of occupied Europe, [and]the functioning of the Nazi state in general. Moreover, the article highlights the consequences of industrial self-responsibility for state-business relations in the Third Reich

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The editors of @ScanEconHisRev are pleased to announce "The German construction industry and industrial self-responsibility in occupied Europe, 1939–45", by Simon Gogl (open access), https://t.co/yBD878vqBO

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with a remarkably low number of administrative personnel because they trusted private industry with central administrative responsibilities and tasks. The focus will be on the German construction industry working under the paramilitary construction unit Organisation Todt

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This historical experience underlines the fact that there are limits to the extent to which even a major shock, such as a pandemic, can lead to behavioural change among households as currently being predicted in relation to COVID-19."

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The editors of @ScanEconHisRev are pleased to announce "Household risk strategies during a pandemic – experiences from the 1918 influenza pandemic", by Lars-Fredrik Andersson and Liselotte Eriksson (Open access), https://t.co/r4M66N4j8e

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primarily small-sum industrial life insurance policies designed for blue-collar workers. The increase in new policies did not, however, have a lasting effect. By the time the pandemic had faded, the number of policies had dropped to below pre-pandemic conditions.

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this article shows how such methods can provide economic and business historians tools to respond to and engage with the ‘narrative turn’ in economics while also building on and offering a macro-level corrective to the focus on narrative in history.

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The editors of @ScanEconHisRev are pleased to announce "Narrative and computational text analysis in business and economic history", by Gregory Ferguson-Cradler (Open Access), https://t.co/MYsVx1NJR7

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Through a survey of the most frequently used tools of computational text analysis and an overview of their uses to date across the social sciences and humanities,

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SEHR is expanding its book review section substantially. If you are interested in books published on Scandinavian and Baltic economic, business and social history, visit our home page to read one (or more) of the nine newly published book reviews, https://t.co/nVSuHqQIod

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The 2021 prize will be awarded in Odense, Denmark next year.

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We are pleased to announce that the first TWO “Heckscher Prizes” of 400 EUR each, for the best article published in the SEHR in 2019 AND 2020 have been awarded! (Long tread)

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The editorial team would nonetheless like to stress that it was not easy to decide on the recipient, and there were other very worth contenders for the 2020 Heckscher Prize.