National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth: Finland from the Late 19th Century until the...

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Heikki Mikkonen

National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth

Finland from the Late 19th Century until the Second World War

Heikki Mikkonen

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English

Routledge
06 June 2025

European history; Macroeconomics; International economics; Political economy; Economic history

Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History

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.

By: Heikki Mikkonen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781032792446
ISBN 10: 1032792442
Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 06 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Heikki Mikkonen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki and a researcher at the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He holds a PhD in History from Tampere University. His current research projects explore invocation and contestation of expert knowledge in political discourses and aim at a comprehensive mapping of scientific life in the republic of Finland since 1918.

Reviews for National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth: Finland from the Late 19th Century until the Second World War

” …this is a pioneer study on the political economy of growth discourse during the 19th and 20th century in Finland situated at the tumultuous crossroads between Western and Eastern Europe."" - Lars Magnusson, Uppsala University.