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The Swedish Financial Revolution 2010th Edition
Author(s): A. Ögren
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 19 Feb. 2010
- Edition: 2010th
- Language: English
- Print length: 246 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230234046
- ISBN-13: 9780230234048
Book Description
How did Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur after the mid-nineteenth century and not before? This book discusses the role of politics and economics in this change and what it means for economic development, market integration and financial crises.
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About the Author
ANDERS ÖGREN is Assistant Professor at EHFF – The Institute for Research in Economic History, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, and Lecturer at Institute d’Études Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), France. He is also Associated Researcher at both EconomiX, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France, and UCBH – Uppsala Center for Business History, Uppsala University, Sweden. Ögren’s main research fields are financial and monetary history, and history of economic thought on which he has published in edited collections and several international journals.
