Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.

List of figures viiList of tables ixList of contributors xiAcknowledgements xiiiGeneral introduction 1KLAS NYBERGPART IParis: the capital of luxury 171 Rational follies: fashion, luxury and credit in eighteenth-century Paris 19PAULA VON WACHENFELDT2 The French model and the rise of Swedish fashion, 1800−1840 34KLAS NYBERGPART IIThe Swedish financial system and bankruptcy law 493 The Swedish bankruptcy system, 1734−1849 51KARL GRATZER, MATS HAYEN AND KLAS NYBERG4 Bankruptcies in Sweden, 1774−1849: causes and structural differences 62MARCUS BOX, KARL GRATZER AND XIANG LINContentsvi ContentsPART IIICredit and bankruptcies in the fashion and luxury trades in Sweden, 1730−1850 775 The institutional setting of the luxury trades in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Stockholm 79KLAS NYBERG6 Economic behaviour and social strategies in the Stockholm silk weaving industry, 1744–1831 97HAKAN JAKOBSSON7 Hair professionals in financial distress in Stockholm, 1750–1830 120RIINA TURUNEN AND KUSTAA H. J. V ILKUNA8 Book printing in Stockholm, from royal privilege to market economy, 1780–1850 136MATS HAYEN9 Cabinetmakers and chair makers in Stockholm, 1730–1850. Production, market and economy in a regulated economy 151GORAN ULVANG10 Credit relations among painting professionals in Stockholm, 1760–1849 170AXEL HAGBERG AND KLAS NYBERGPART IVConclusions 18311 The Stockholm credit market in an international perspective 185KLAS NYBERGBibliography 199Index 223