Stability versus change : The long term population cycle over larger regions in Sweden

• The dominant hypothesis conceming the distribution of the Swedish population over larger regions during the last two hundred years seems to be that of relative stability. The colonisation of Northem Sweden would then be regarded as the exception. In this paper, we instead give empirical support in favour of the counterhypothesis, that the Swedish dynamics is characterised by long term instability and that a population cycle over larger regions has dominated the picture. In order to prove this we also introduce a new division of Sweden into larger regions based on spatial theory.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Social och ekonomisk geografi -- Ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Social and Economic Geography -- Economic Geography (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Long term regional development

Regional economic history

Sweden

population

demography

power

nationalekonomi

Economics

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

ovr (subject category)