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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nordisk Ministerråd
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
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Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9289323841
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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
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.
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.
Author: Jon Pierre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0199665672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.
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.
Author: Nordiska Ministerrådet
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9289322519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andersen, Torben M.
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9289344520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nordic Economic Policy Review is published by the Nordic Council of Ministers. This year’s issue is part of the Danish presidency programme for the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2015. The review addresses policy issues in a way that is useful for in-formed non-specialists as well as for professional economists. All articles are commissioned from leading professional economists and are subject to peer review prior to publication. The review appears once a year. It is published electronically on the website of the Nordic Council of Ministers: www.norden.org/en. On that website, you can also order paper copies of the Review (enter the name of the Review in the search field, and you will find all the information you need).