1st Edition

An Economic History of Modern Sweden

By Lennart Schön Copyright 2012
392 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Growth and transformation in two centuries  2. Agrarian Transformation and Early Industrialisation, 1790-1850  3. Railway Construction and Expanded Industrialisation, 1850-1890  4. The Breakthrough of the Industrial Society in 1890-1930  5. The Peak of Industrial Society, 1930-1975  6. The Third Industrial Revolution and the Breakthrough of the Service Economy, 1975-2005.  Epilogue – Perspectives from the Third Industrial Revolution

Biography

Lennart Schön is Professor of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden.