Title: The welfare state in transition
Description: Once heralded in the 1950s and 1960s as a model welfare state, Sweden is now in transition and in trouble since its economic plunge in the early 1990s. This volume presents ten essays that examine Sweden's economic problems from a U.S. perspective. Exploring such diverse topics as income equalization and efficiency, welfare and tax policy, wage determination and unemployment, and international competitiveness and growth, they consider how Sweden's welfare state succeeded in eliminating poverty and became a role model for other countries. They then reflect on Sweden's past economic problems, su.
Subjects: Economic Conditions, Economics, Congresses, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Comparative, Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Sweden, economic conditions, Sweden, social policy
Places: Sweden
Time periods: 1945-