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An Economic History of Modern Sweden.
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 w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & amp; Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge explorations in economic history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.