Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization: New Forms of Economic Organization and Welfare Institutions

by Peer Hull Kristensen

Book Overview

In the early 1990s the Nordic countries were considered to be in a serious situation. The costs of welfare states, generous unemployment benefits, high taxation rates, strong unions, and centralized wage bargaining were thought to be undermining their competitiveness in an age of rapid globalization. By 2005 however, they all ranked at the top of a number of performance indexes on economic competitiveness and sustainability. Citizens in the Nordic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00LY1R5A2
• ISBN13: 9780199655847
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"