Sakari Heikkinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sakari Heikkinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sakari |
| FAMILY NAME | Heikkinen |
| SIGNATURE | HEIKKINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sticky Swedes and flexible Finns
Nominal wage stickiness is a popular explanation for the greatness of the Great Depression. According to the sticky-wage explanation, the slow adjustment of nominal wages raised real wages above the market-clearing level, causing a reduction of output and labour, thus increasing unemployment. Explanations for nominal wage stickiness are usually sought within the labour-market institutions and their changes after the First World War. This paper ex…
Technologies of Truth
(1999). Technologies of Truth: peeling Foucault's triangular onion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 141-157
Major necessities and minor luxuries
This article examines consumption in Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The emphasis of the article is on worker households, the consumption of which is described on the basis of household-budget studies. Long-term macro time-series are used to check the views derived from cross-sectional consumption enquiries. These two kinds of data are compared also by comparing the income elasticities of consumption. It is shown tha…
Select bibliography of contributions to economic and social history appearing in scandinavian books, periodicals and year-books, 1991
Select bibliography of contributions to economic and social history appearing in scandinavian books, periodicals and year-books, 1990
On private consumption and the standard of living in Finland, 1860–1912
‘Standard of living’ does not lack problems as a concept, but it is self evident that when using it we need some kind of indicator, otherwise no rational discussion on the standard of living and its changes would be possible. In the debate concerning the standard of living, several alternative indicators have been proposed. The three most central ones are real wages, per capita domestic product and — consumption.1 Even if we set aside the theoret…
Technologies of Truth
(1999). Technologies of Truth: peeling Foucault's triangular onion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 141-157
On private consumption and the standard of living in Finland, 1860–1912
‘Standard of living’ does not lack problems as a concept, but it is self evident that when using it we need some kind of indicator, otherwise no rational discussion on the standard of living and its changes would be possible. In the debate concerning the standard of living, several alternative indicators have been proposed. The three most central ones are real wages, per capita domestic product and — consumption.1 Even if we set aside the theoret…
Select bibliography of contributions to economic and social history appearing in scandinavian books, periodicals and year-books, 1990
Select bibliography of contributions to economic and social history appearing in scandinavian books, periodicals and year-books, 1991
Major necessities and minor luxuries
This article examines consumption in Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The emphasis of the article is on worker households, the consumption of which is described on the basis of household-budget studies. Long-term macro time-series are used to check the views derived from cross-sectional consumption enquiries. These two kinds of data are compared also by comparing the income elasticities of consumption. It is shown tha…
Technologies of Truth
(1999). Technologies of Truth: peeling Foucault's triangular onion. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 141-157
Sticky Swedes and flexible Finns
Nominal wage stickiness is a popular explanation for the greatness of the Great Depression. According to the sticky-wage explanation, the slow adjustment of nominal wages raised real wages above the market-clearing level, causing a reduction of output and labour, thus increasing unemployment. Explanations for nominal wage stickiness are usually sought within the labour-market institutions and their changes after the First World War. This paper ex…
Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Bibliography (2 works) · Cultural History and Identity Formation (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)