An economic history of modern Sweden / / Lennart Schon

• Autore: Schon Lennart <1946-, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.9485
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - Sweden
• Soggetto geografico: Sweden Economic conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 1790-1850The European background; The transformation of agriculture and early industry inSweden 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, 1930-1975From 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "It is a synthesis of Swedish economic growth, social change and modernization of the society from the turn of the century 1800 up to the present. The book highlights the determinants of long term growth, the role of innovations and entrepreneurs as well as the interplay between different sectors of the economy over major epochs. The epochal shifts are presented in a long wave pattern with global crises as decisive turnings points. The theoretical approach is integrated into a broad description of the historical evolution from the agricultural society over industrialization up to the present service and IT-oriented society. The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc. for sectors and branches covering the whole economy, even including estimates of non-marketed domestic work. It is also based on a broad literature from Swedish historiography with details on the individual level of firms, innovators and entrepreneurs. Focus is upon the interplay between technological, economic and social change where a number of broad themes are treated with a general interest to historians or economists, e.g. the role of social change and domestic markets versus international specialisation and exports as dynamic factors in Swedish economic growth. Epochs with different structures appears as long waves, demarcated by international or global crises around 1850, 1890, 1930, 1975 and apparently once again around 2010. A particular perspective is upon radical innovations that form expansive development blocks and create a basis for international specialisation within each epoch"--
• Titolo autorizzato: An economic history of modern Sweden
• ISBN: 1-136-33850-0; 1-280-66048-1; 9786613637413; 0-203-12333-6; 1-136-33851-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779022203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge explorations in economic history ; ; 54.