Klas Rönnbäck

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Klas Rönnbäck
Professor
klas.ronnback@econhist.gu.se
+46 31 786 4520

Room number: 616
Postal Address: Box 625, 40530 Göteborg
Visiting Address: Viktoriagatan 13 plan 6 , 41125 Göteborg

Economic History at Department of Economy and Society (More Information)
Box 625
405 30 Göteborg
Visiting Address: Viktoriagatan 13 , 411 25 Göteborg

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Research areas

Economic development
Colonialism
Slavery
Capitalism

Research in progress

Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Institutions and wealth inequality in a Caribbean plantation economy, 1750s to 1917, Jan/19 - Dec/22
Imperial Profits: The return on investments in Africa, 1869-1969, Dec/16 - Dec/20

Teaching areas

Global economic history
Economic history of slavery

Selected publications

Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The Case of the Gold Coast
Rönnbäck, Klas
2016

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African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth century
Rönnbäck, Klas, Theodoridis, Dimitrios
Economic history review, 2018

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Scandinavia in the Atlantic World
Rönnbäck, Klas
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Oxford University Press, 2018

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On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach
Rönnbäck, Klas
Journal of Global History, 13:3, s. 309-327, 2018

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Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869-1969
Rönnbäck, Klas, Broberg, Oskar
2019

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2020

The Slave Trades out of Africa
Klas Rönnbäck
Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Felix Meier zu Selhausen (eds), The History of African Development, African Economic History Network, Chapter in book 2020
Chapter in book

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The business of barter on the pre-colonial Gold Coast
Klas Rönnbäck
Economic History of Developing Regions, Journal article 2020
Journal article

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2019

Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Comparative evidence on wealth inequality in the Danish West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
Swedish Economic History Conferece, Uppsala, Conference contribution 2019
Conference contribution

Colonialism and rural inequality in Sierra Leone: an egalitarian experiment
Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Review of Economic History, Journal article 2019
Journal article

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Factor endowments and international trade: a study of land embodied in trade on the Baltic Sea region, 1750–1856
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck, Werner Scheltjens
European Review of Economic History, Journal article 2019
Journal article

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Kolonialism, kapital och ekonomisk utveckling
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
Ekonomisk Debatt, Magazine article 2019
Magazine article

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Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’: Wages and Migration from Europe to the Gold Coast in the Eighteenth Century
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefan Öberg, Stefania Galli
Journal of Migration History, Journal article 2019
Journal article

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Enlightenment, Scientific Exploration and Abolitionism Anders Sparrman’s and Carl Bernhard Wadström’s colonial encounters in Senegal, 1787–1788 and the British abolitionist movement
Klas Rönnbäck
The Moment is Now: Carl Bernhard Wadström’s Revolutionary Voice on Human Trafficking and the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Edited by Anders Hallengren, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Swedenborg Foundation, Chapter in book 2019
Chapter in book

Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Comparative evidence on wealth inequality in the Danish West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Historical Economics Society Conferece, Paris, Conference contribution 2019
Conference contribution

Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869-1969
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
Palgrave Macmillan, Book 2019
Book

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