Umfang:
1 online resource (393 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415671309
,
9780203123331
Serie:
Routledge Explorations in Economic History Series
Inhalt:
This book gives a comprehensive account of Swedish economic development from 1800 to the early years of the new millennium
Anmerkung:
Cover -- An Economic History of Modern Sweden -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the English edition -- 1. Growth and transformation during two centuries -- Growth and transformation -- Pillars of growth -- The significance of transformation -- Complementarity and development blocks -- A pattern in long-term social development -- Transformation and distribution of income -- A structural cycle -- Foreign trade and Swedish transformation -- How this book is organised -- Background in previous research -- 2. The transformation of agriculture and early industrialisation, 1790-1850 -- The European background -- The transformation of agriculture and early industry in Sweden up to the mid-nineteenth century -- 3. Railway construction and expanded industrialisation, 1850-1890 -- Industrialisation and transformation in Europe -- Sweden and the breakthrough of industrialisation, 1850-1890 -- 4. The breakthrough of industrial society, 1890-1930 -- The Second Industrial Revolution -- The breakthrough of industrial society in Sweden in the 1890s and afterwards -- War profits, crisis and rationalisation, 1910-1930 -- 5.The peak of industrial society, 1930-1975 -- From crisis and war to all-time records -- The Swedish economy in transformation, 1930-1950 -- A golden age of growth in the Western world, 1950-1975 -- A golden age of industrialism in Sweden, 1950-1975 -- 6. The Third Industrial Revolution and the breakthrough of the service economy, 1975-2010 -- Transformation and globalisation -- The Swedish economy in crisis and transformation since the 1970s -- Epilogue: Perspectives from the Third Industrial Revolution -- Notes -- References -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Schön, Lennart An Economic History of Modern Sweden Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415671309
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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