Jun142019

The Swedish Model as Programmed for Failure

Economy • necessary conversations

By Howard Richards

Chapter Seven [1]

Chapter Overview

  1. Introduction
  2. Social Structure Revisited
  3. The Swedish Model
  4. Bounded Social Democracy
  5. Achieving Growth as a Constraint
  6. Some Swedish Model Achievements
  7. The Government as Employer of Last Resort
  8. The Decline of the Swedish Model
  9. Assar Lindbeck’s Critique of the Swedish Welfare State
  10. Conclusions: Some Challenges for Unbounded Organization in the Light of the Decline of the Swedish Model
  11. Green New Deals
  12. Introducing a Community Approach in the Swedish Model Context
  13. Toward Making Growth (i.e. Finance) and Globalisation Governable
  14. More on Governability in the Financial Services Sector

 

[1] Our thanks to Dean Björn Åstrand of Karlstad University in Sweden for his helpful comments

 

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