The Swedish comprehensive school reform implied an extension of the number of years of compulsory school from 7 or 8 to 9 for the entire nation and was implemented as a social experiment by municipality between 1949 and 1962. A previous study (Meghir and Palme, 2005) has shown that this reform...

1 Introduction -- 2 Impact of 2008 Financial Crisis -- 3 National Intellectual Capital Development of the Five Nordic Countries -- 4 Beyond the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 5 Future Perspectives and Policy Implications.