National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth

Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War. This book provides an alternative perspective to the Anglo-centric historical analysis of growth by turning the focus on Finland and other Nordic countries f...

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description Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War. This book provides an alternative perspective to the Anglo-centric historical analysis of growth by turning the focus on Finland and other Nordic countries from the late 19th century until the Second World War. Moreover, it provides a conceptual history perspective to how economic growth can be examined before the emergence of economic growth as a concept. This book places Finland in the context of emerging nation-states of the early 20th-century Europe and constructs five competing growth conceptions: classical liberal, agrarian conservative, social liberal, social democratic, and communist. With a methodology derived from conceptual history, this book presents a framework to study economic growth in the context of nationalism. It showcases how ideas related to growth have not been synonymous with capitalism, but rather they have been connected to state-building and to comparison of economic systems. The findings of the book highlight the interwar period as a key turning point in historical analysis of growth. This book provides a fresh and a thought-provoking account that will be of interest to students and scholars of economic history, history of ideas, development studies and degrowth, and history of capitalism.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1697402025-12-02T05:18:44Z National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth Mikkonen, Heikki classical liberalism Nordic Nordic economic history conceptual history approach communism interwar period analysis varieties of capitalism state-building economics Finland comparative economic systems agrarian conservatism history of capitalism social liberalism economic ideologies in twentieth-century Finland economic growth capitalism Finnish thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economics Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War. This book provides an alternative perspective to the Anglo-centric historical analysis of growth by turning the focus on Finland and other Nordic countries from the late 19th century until the Second World War. Moreover, it provides a conceptual history perspective to how economic growth can be examined before the emergence of economic growth as a concept. This book places Finland in the context of emerging nation-states of the early 20th-century Europe and constructs five competing growth conceptions: classical liberal, agrarian conservative, social liberal, social democratic, and communist. With a methodology derived from conceptual history, this book presents a framework to study economic growth in the context of nationalism. It showcases how ideas related to growth have not been synonymous with capitalism, but rather they have been connected to state-building and to comparison of economic systems. The findings of the book highlight the interwar period as a key turning point in historical analysis of growth. This book provides a fresh and a thought-provoking account that will be of interest to students and scholars of economic history, history of ideas, development studies and degrowth, and history of capitalism. 2025-12-02T05:18:43Z 2025-12-02T05:18:43Z 2025-12-01T12:16:47Z 2025 book ONIX_20251201T131047_9781040369418_37 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108817 9781040369418 9781032792446 9781040369456 9781003494249 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169740 eng Perspectives in Economic and Social History open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108817/1/9781040369418.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003494249 10.4324/9781003494249 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 a8a8e376-8626-4ff7-97e6-531a48d61696 9781040369418 9781032792446 9781040369456 9781003494249 Routledge 190 Oxford [...] open access
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Nordic
Nordic economic history
conceptual history approach
communism
interwar period analysis
varieties of capitalism
state-building economics
Finland
comparative economic systems
agrarian conservatism
history of capitalism
social liberalism
economic ideologies in twentieth-century Finland
economic growth
capitalism
Finnish
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thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economics
Mikkonen, Heikki
National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth
title National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth
title_full National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth
title_fullStr National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth
title_full_unstemmed National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth
title_short National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth
title_sort national wealth income and the history of economic growth
topic classical liberalism
Nordic
Nordic economic history
conceptual history approach
communism
interwar period analysis
varieties of capitalism
state-building economics
Finland
comparative economic systems
agrarian conservatism
history of capitalism
social liberalism
economic ideologies in twentieth-century Finland
economic growth
capitalism
Finnish
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economics
topic_facet classical liberalism
Nordic
Nordic economic history
conceptual history approach
communism
interwar period analysis
varieties of capitalism
state-building economics
Finland
comparative economic systems
agrarian conservatism
history of capitalism
social liberalism
economic ideologies in twentieth-century Finland
economic growth
capitalism
Finnish
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCB Macroeconomics
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economics
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