The Nordic Varieties of Capitalism (Comparative Social Research) (Comparative Social Research, 28)

433 Pages·2011·4.999 MB·English

THE NORDIC VARIETIES OF
CAPITALISM
COMPARATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH
Series Editor: Fredrik Engelstad
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COMPARATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH VOLUME 28
THE NORDIC VARIETIES
OF CAPITALISM
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LARS MJØSET
University of Oslo, Norway
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CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii
EDITORIAL BOARD ix
INTRODUCTION: THE NORDIC VARIETIES xi
OF CAPITALISM
ICELANDIC CAPITALISM – FROM STATISM TO
NEOLIBERALISM AND FINANCIAL COLLAPSE
Stefa´n O´lafsson 1
THE FINNISH MODEL OF ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL POLICY – FROM COLD WAR PRIMITIVE
ACCUMULATION TO GENERATIONAL CONFLICTS?
Juhana Vartiainen 53
FROM THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS TO
BONANZA – AND BEYOND. DANISH
ECONOMY AND ECONOMIC POLICIES 1980–2011
Jørgen Goul Andersen 89
THE INTEGRATION OF THE NORWEGIAN OIL
ECONOMY INTO THE WORLD ECONOMY
Lars Mjøset and A˚dne Cappelen 167
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF TRAUMATIC
EVENTS, NEW IDEAS, ECONOMIC EXPERTS
AND THE ICT REVOLUTION – THE ECONOMIC
POLICY AND MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
OF SWEDEN IN THE 1990S AND 2000S
Lennart Erixon 265
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vi CONTENTS
NORDIC COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS – A
CONTINUOUS INSTITUTION IN A CHANGING
ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
Juhana Vartiainen 331
NORDIC POLITICAL ECONOMY AFTER FINANCIAL
DEREGULATION: BANKING CRISES, ECONOMIC
EXPERTS, AND THE ROLE OF NEOLIBERALISM
Lars Mjøset 365
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
A˚dne Cappelen Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway
Lennart Erixon Department of Economics, Stockholm
University, Stockholm, Sweden
Jørgen Goul Andersen Department of Political Science, Aalborg
University, Aalborg, Denmark
Lars Mjøset Department of Sociology and Human
Geography, University of Oslo,
Oslo, Norway
Stefa´n O´lafsson Department of Social and Human Science,
University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Juhana Vartiainen National Institute for Economic Research,
Stockholm, Sweden
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Fredrik Engelstad Lars Mjøset
Department of Sociology and Department of Sociology and
Human Geography, University of Human Geography, University of
Oslo, Oslo, Norway Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Bernard Enjolras Mari Teigen
Institute for Social Research, Institute for Social Research,
Oslo, Norway Oslo, Norway
Kristian Berg Harpviken
International Peace Research
Institute, Oslo, Norway
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