Erik Lakomaa

The Scandinavian Economic History Review is published by Taylor & Francis under the auspices of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History. As a shared responsibility, the Editor-in-Chief assignment rotates across the four Scandinavian countries according to four-year terms. The turn to host the journal has now come to Sweden. It is a great honour to be given the responsibility for this reputable journal, published since 1953, during the coming four years. On behalf of the Society, we would like to begin this brief editorial by expressing our gratitude to our predecessors from Norway, Espen Ekberg (BI Oslo) and Francisco J. Beltran Tapia (NTNU), for their outstanding work over the last four years. Among their achievements, they have successfully sustained the effort to increase the quality of the published works, launched several special issues, and initiated the Heckscher Price, which is given to the author(s) of the best article each year.

The design of the editorial team has varied somewhat across the years. We, the editors-in-chief, are flanked by three additional editors, one from each of the other three Scandinavian countries. This means that Klara Arnberg (Stockholm University), previously the journal’s Swedish editor, has been replaced by Kristin Ranestad (University of Oslo) from Norway. We would like to thank Klara Arnberg for her excellent work during the previous term. We are lucky to still count on Laura Ekholm (University of Helsinki) as Finnish editor and Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark) as Danish editor. To complete the editorial team, we have also recruited a new editorial secretary, John Lapidus (University of Gothenburg), and a book review editor, Erik Bengtsson (Lund University).

Under our editorship, the journal will continue publishing high-quality articles in the fields of economic, business, and social history with a particular focus on the Nordic countries and the Baltic region. We also encourage submissions with a focus on other countries, provided that they contain a comparative element that includes Scandinavia or the Baltic region, as well as submissions which engage with theoretical and methodological issues. As in previous terms, the journal will continue publishing reviews of books with a focus on Scandinavia and the Baltic countries.