Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2005.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2005. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Diss. Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet, 2007.

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2007.

Diss. Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet, 2009. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

The world of 1975 was different the one of 2013 because of profound and big political, economic and technological changes. The food availability increased due to changes in production and distribution which made them more accessible and, because of that, the consumption of food in Kcal per capita increased in all countries.Urbanization and technological changes also contributed to the development of a sedentary lifestyle and to the development of a food industry ready to satisfy the necessities of a constantly growing urban population thru palatable and ready to eat products.This thesis analyses the relationship between economic growth and the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity during the period of 1975-2013 at a global level and studies the driving economic factors behind that development.

Uppsatsen kartlägger Stekenjokkgruvans historiska utveckling utifrån en politisk beslutsprocessmodell. Undersökningsperioden tar start redan vid upptäckten av Stekenjokkmalmen år 1918 men uppsatsen fokuserar främst på det tidiga 70-talet, då Stekenjokkgruvan blev en politisk fråga, fram till gruvans nedläggning i november 1988. Idag har Stekenjokkgruvan åter blivit aktuell eftersom ett gruvbolag vill återuppta gruvdriften i området. Utgångspunkten är att problematisera vad staten hade för motiv att investera i Stekenjokkgruvan utifrån en Industrial policy-ansats. Uppsatsen återspeglar även processerna i Stekenjokkfrågan med Stålverk 80 som var en annan samtida statlig industriinvestering.  Detta för att stärka bilden av hur beslutsprocessen gick till vid statliga industriinvesteringar under 70-talet och för att fånga upp vilka faktorer som påverkade beslutet. I denna uppsats dras slutsatsen att statens ingripande i Stekenjokkgruvan kan förklaras av det tidiga 70-talets regionalpolitiska målsättning. Politiken inriktades mot att minska den dåvarande utflyttningstrenden från landsbygden, genom att skapa sysselsättning i form av industrisatsningar i framförallt Norrland. Staten hade även starka samhällsekonomiska skäl att investera i Stekenjokkgruvan. Stålverk 80 kunde även motiveras av liknande anledningar men med skillnad att Stålverk 80 förväntades vara ett mycket företagsekonomiskt lönsamt projekt som till och med skulle förbättra den svenska handelsbalansen.

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Policy makers, regional planners and the like have long tried in vain to come up with both economically profound and comprehensive regional policies. These policies are extremely important to achieve de- velopment goals in the European Union, which is why regulations for economic convergence and in- creasing competitiveness of regions are critical. Nowadays, technological progress poses new tasks for policy makers, as economic production shifted from industrial towards knowledge intensive processes. Therefore, it is widely accepted that knowledge is the new trigger of regional economic performance. Yet, established knowledge assets, such as creativity, human capital and entrepreneurship are scarcely studied jointly in research practice. This leaves the scientific community with a fragmented understand- ing of this topic, and can cause considerable confusion among policy makers. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, on the conceptual front, it investigates the role of knowledge assets for regional performance. The major question in this regard is whether the more recent creative class approach outperforms conventional human capital measures. Secondly, the paper aims to clarify both the significance of selecting regional performance indicators and the role of regional hierarchy. Work undertaken in this regard uses various indicators interchange- ably and often fails get to the bottom of what the choice of the indicator means for their approach. By the same token, there are persistent uncertainties about the choice and the relevance of regional units for spatial econometric analysis. Therefore, the analysis tries to study the consequences of choosing specific indicators and regional units. Using a general spatial model, the paper estimates a Cobb-Douglas production function of the economic performance of 290 Swedish municipalities between 2009 and 2014. With this mathematical approach, spatial autocorrelation and spatial error disturbances are eliminated, allowing for more comprehensive and spatially robust results. By doing so, multiple variables representing human capital, creativity, entre- preneurship and innovative activities are examined and compared across four models varying on re- gional scale and output indicators. This approach also controls for a set of industrial and socio-economic features of the regional environment. The study found significant differences for varying regional levels and performance indicators. Moreover, creativity, narrowly defined, seems to be most strongly linked to regional performance outperforming other variables, including human capital measures.