Beyond industrial policy. State intervention in the Swedish electricity supply industry, 1936-1946

Martin Eriksson

Business History, 2015, vol. 57, issue 6, 903-918

Abstract: As in other Western European countries, the emergence of a national network for electricity transmission in Sweden was accompanied by a greater degree of State intervention in the electricity supply sector. The aim of this article is to elucidate the institutional background to the decision in 1946 by the Social Democratic government to transfer control of the national grid to the Swedish National Power Board. It is demonstrated that this decision not only was linked to a general industrial policy to promote energy supply. It was also linked to the agricultural and cohesion policies which emerged during the 1940s.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2014.986107

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