The present paper discusses Norway's way to prosperity during the two last centuries. The main reason for its wealth … reveal that Norway's wealth was close to the western European average in the early nineteenth century. From the 1840s to the ….After the two world wars Norway adopted a social democratic rule, with a high degree of economic planning, called the Nordic …

Existing historical GDP series for Norway do not always coincide with our historical knowledge of the economic … data sets upon which these series rest. The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway …