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collapse of the Swedish myth
Author(s) -
Brodin Eric
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1992.tb00842.x
Subject(s) - mythology , socialism , foundation (evidence) , poverty , welfare state , state (computer science) , democracy , political science , welfare , economic history , sociology , development economics , political economy , law , history , economics , politics , classics , communism , mathematics , algorithm
Is Sweden the successful example of a social democracy that it is supposed to be? Eric Brodin, of the Foundation for International Studies in North Carolina, demolishes the mythology of success and shows that socialism and the welfare state have reduced Sweden to moral and material poverty.