Lars P. Syll — Whatever happened to the Swedish model?

Whatever happened to the Swedish model?
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University

What happened? Neoliberalism.

Lars Syll on Paul Krugman on the "Swedish Model" and inequality

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“Modern” macroeconomics hasn’t delivered
by Lars P. Syll

Lars shows how Paul Krugman gets the Swedish model wrong.

So, I’m sorry Paul, but Sweden is no longer the model country it once was, in the heydays of the 60s and 70s. It’s no longer the country of Olof Palme. Just as in your own country, neoliberal ideologies, economists and politicians have crushed the Swedish dream that once was. It’s sad. But it’s a fact. And facts – as Gunnar Myrdal used to say – kick!

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Krugman and the Swedish model

by Lars P. Syll