TY - BOOK ID - 10004434 TI - In the Doorway to Development PY - 2012 SN - 9004214445 9786613530608 9004225668 1280126744 9789004225664 9781280126741 9789004214446 6613530603 PB - Leiden BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Economic development - Norway - History. KW - Economic development -- Norway -- History. KW - Norway - Commerce - History. KW - Norway -- Commerce -- History. KW - Norway - Economic conditions - 18th century. KW - Norway -- Economic conditions -- 18th century. KW - Norway - Economic conditions - 19th century. KW - Norway -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. KW - Economic development KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic History KW - History KW - History. KW - Norway KW - Economic conditions KW - Commerce KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Norveška KW - Norwegia KW - Norge KW - Norwegen KW - Kongeriket Norge KW - Kingdom of Norway KW - Norvège KW - Noreg KW - Norvegia KW - Norga KW - Kongeriket Noreg KW - Norgga gonagasriika KW - Norja KW - ノルウェー KW - Noruwē KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10004434 AB - Set within the growing literature on European economy in the late 18th and early 19th century, this book furnishes a “pre-history” to Norway’s rapid structural transformation and accelerated economic growth after the mid-nineteenth century. It argues that Norway in the long 18th century benefitted from an export-led growth, which exploited its abundant natural resources. The income from exports fuelled a substantial increase in consumption among rural households, while “pluriactivity”, a household strategy to balance market oriented production and consumption with self sufficiency in the insufficiently developed market succeeded in offering a “soft way” toward modern market society. ER -