Nordic Neoliberalisms - Perspectives on Economic, Social Cultural Change in Nordics After

Drawing on a cross-disciplinary perspective from history and social science, this book examines what is common to neoliberalism, and where it differs, in four Nordic countries across four key sectors of liberalization: capital markets, labor markets, industrial relations and the welfare state.

List of contents

Introduction: Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics after 1970 Part 1: Historical Precedents 1. Nordic Neoliberals in Intellectual History 2. From NIEO-liberalism to Neoliberalism: Denmark, Sweden, and the Changing Role of Development Finance 3. Rights against the welfare state: Timbro and the neoliberal mobilisation of legalist constitutionalism in Sweden, 1980-2000 4. Wage Earners, Taxpayers, or Every Man Capitalists? The Making of a Mutual Fund Culture in Sweden 5. Capital Interest: Privatization in Sweden Part 2: Social Science 6. Interrogating Nordic Neoliberalism: Industrial Relations Change in Nordic Countries 7. Economic Inequality in the Nordics in Times of Neoliberalism 8. Scandinavian Family-State Relations in Neoliberal Times: The Politics of Parenthood in Scandinavia 1970s to 1990s 9. The Fictitious Commodification of Nordic Social Democratic Capital: Three Hypotheses 10. Neoliberalisation and Financialisation: Icelandic exceptionalism - Booms, Busts and Neoliberal Continuity 11. The Norwegian Derisking State: Residual Neoliberalism in the Green Transition

About the author

Jenny Andersson is Professor of the History of Ideas and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Chris Howell is currently the JY Pillay Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College and Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oberlin College, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny (Uppsala University Andersson
• Assisted by: Andersson Jenny (Editor), Howell Chris (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032914442
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3291444-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Nordic Studies in a Global Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Social issues & processes, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Social and ethical issues