Growth in public finances as tool for control: Norwegian development 1850-1950

Ola Grytten ()

No 15/2014, Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics

Abstract: By drawing on information from public accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth century the present paper aims at mapping the development of key financial indicators for the Norwegian central government sector. It concludes that growth in the size of this sector often, but clearly not always, reflects political economy regimes. The paper concludes that persistant growth in public finances as tool for control over the economy did not take place before the introduction of the social-democratic regime in 1935.

Keywords: Public finances; Norwegian development. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N23 N24 N33 N34 N43 N44 O16 O21 O23 P11 P16 P41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2014-05-05
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