From state railway housekeeping to railway economics : Swedish railway policy and economic transformation after 1920 in an institutional perspective

• In this article the development of Swedish railway policy in the twentieth century is interpreted as a process of institutional change where the effects of real economic development are filtered through the railway's established institutional framework. The change in railway policy is seen as a result of an economic historical process where the industrialisation era's conception of the role of railways in society survives in institutional arrangements, and marks the railways adjustment to present-day economic and soical conditons.

Subject headings

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

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

Keyword

Economic history

railway policy

institutions

institutional change

Economic history

Ekonomisk historia

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)