The World Bank Research Observer
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 300
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An Economic History of Sweden
Author: Lars Magnusson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000-03-23
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 113467595X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It traces the rapid industrialisation, the political currents and the social ambitions, that transformed Sweden from a backward agrarian economy into what is now regarded by many as a model welfar
An Economic History of Sweden
Author: Eli Filip Heckscher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780674228009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweden's Welfare State
Author: Mr.Subhash Madhav Thakur
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2003-05-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781589061583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweden has long been viewed as epitomizing a particular approach to economic and social policy. To its advocates, the Swedish welfare state builds on a strong social consensus favoring extensive state intervention to ensure a high quality of life for all Swedes. To its critics, the Swedish system is marked by excessive government intervention and attendant inefficiencies. These contrasting views are captured in imagery used by Prime Minister Göran Persson: "Think of a bumblebee. With its overly heavy body and little wings, supposedly it should not be able to fly--but it does." The Swedish welfare state is the bumblebee that has managed to fly. This book draws on many years of IMF surveillance and policy advice to explain how it has done so, to assess the challenges that the Swedish model faces in the new century, to propose a strategy for dealing with those challenges, and to draw lessons for the many other countries that face similar challenges from globalization and demographics.
Exchange Rates, Prices, and Wages, 1277-2008
Author: Rodney Edvinsson
Publisher: Ekerlids Forlag
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9789170921247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReforming the Welfare State
Author: Richard B. Freeman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0226261913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostered became an example for other countries to emulate. Of late, Sweden has also been much discussed as a model of how to deal with financial and economic crisis, due to the country's recovery from a banking crisis in the mid-1990s. At that time economists heatedly debated whether the welfare state caused Sweden's crisis and should be reformed—a debate with clear parallels to current concerns over capitalism. Bringing together leading economists, Reforming the Welfare State examines Sweden's policies in response to the mid-1990s crisis and the implications for the subsequent recovery. Among the issues investigated are the way changes in the labor market, tax and benefit policies, local government policy, industrial structure, and international trade affected Sweden's recovery. The way that Sweden addressed its economic challenges provides valuable insight into the viability of large welfare states, and more broadly, into the way modern economies deal with crisis.
Productivity Measurement and Analysis
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2009-04-28
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9264044612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the proceedings of two workshops on productivity measurement and analysis, which brought together representatives of statistical offices, central banks and other officials involved with the analysis and measurement of productivity at aggregate and industry levels.
The Great Demographic Reversal
Author: Charles Goodhart
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-08-08
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 3030426572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due to an enormous surge in the world’s available labour supply, owing to very favourable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour, so that inequality falls. Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others. This book will be of interest and understandable to anyone with an interest on where the world’s economy may be going.
Swedish Economists in the 1930s Debate on Economic Planning
Author: Benny Carlson
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2018-12-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783030036997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies. The perceived need for economic planning emerged in Sweden in part due to the increasing political strength of the Social Democrats and their evolution from a party hampered by Marxist fatalism to a pragmatic mass movement. The Swedish debate continued beyond World War II and is still relevant to today’s economic crises, which have resulted in a demand for action coming from below (populism) and above (elitism). Carlson surveys the arguments for and against economic planning as they were put forward by leading Swedish economists in the 1930s, with a focus on the thoughts of Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Gösta Bagge, Gunnar Myrdal and Bertil Ohlin, among others. In so doing he provides a timely exploration of the debate on the necessary and desirable extent of state intervention in market economies.
