An institutional approach to the Gt̲a kanal : a nineteenth-century infrastructure mega-project / Bjr̲n Hasselgren.

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An institutional approach to the Gt̲a kanal : a nineteenth-century infrastructure mega-project / Bjr̲n Hasselgren.

9783031444166 (electronic bk.)
3031444167 (electronic bk.)
3031444159
9783031444159

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

1 online resource (xiii, 108 pages) : illustrations (some color).

10.1007/978-3-031-44416-6 doi

HE473.G67

386/.409485

This book is based on an institutional evolutionary theoretical view, as presented in author??b9s 2018 book Transport Infrastructure in Time, Scope and Scale. Canals were the major transport infrastructure system besides roads and maritime transport until railroads were introduced. The canal studied is the Swedish G©?ta kanal during the preparation and construction phase from 1800??b31832. Thus, the G©?ta kanal project, and the canal-era, is seen from a technological, an economic and a political perspective. Comparisons are made with two contemporary major canal-projects; the Erie Canal in the USA (1817??b31825) and the Caledonian Canal in Britain (1804-1822). It is argued that the G©?ta kanal project, as Sweden's Mega Project of its time, represented an important development step in Sweden as regards learning and innovation and became a starting point for Swedish transport infrastructure projects in the time to come, primarily the railways. Bj©?rn Hasselgren is a guest researcher in the Economic History Department of Uppsala University, Sweden and has a Ph.D. in planning and decision analysis from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has extensive experience from senior positions in the transport infrastructure sector and the Sveriges Riksbank. His last book, Transport Infrastructure in Time, Scope and Scale: An Economic History and Evolutionary Perspective, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.

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