Overview

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. Assessing its scope and forms, the actors involved, processes and mechanisms, and how it has been experienced by citizens and consumers, the book offers accounts of the historical antecedents of neoliberalism in the Nordics as well as studies of it as lived experience through a fundamentally transformed relationship between citizens and the market and between welfare and the state. It asserts that neoliberalism both shapes and adapts to the political-economic terrain into which it is introduced to form a hybrid relationship of market ideology with distinct indigenous political cultures and political institutions. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of Nordic studies, neoliberalism, political economy and more broadly to contemporary/modern history, sociology, comparative politics, European History and the welfare state. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Author:   Jenny Andersson (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Chris Howell (Oberlin College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781032914442

ISBN 10:   1032914440
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   08 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table 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

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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.

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