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Finance and the Welfare State : Banking Development and Regulatory Principles in Sweden, 1900–2015
Larsson, Mats - 2017
connected to both pragmatic and ideological considerations. In the case of Sweden the shift towards more extensive bank …, Sweden. He is a member of the editorial board of the Business History journal. Gabriel Söderberg is a researcher in the … Department of Economic History at Uppsala University, Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397301
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Variations of the Welfare State : Great Britain, Sweden, France and Germany Between Capitalism and Socialism
Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver - 2013
Germany, emphasizes norms, culture and history, in contrast to political economy approaches. Comparing Britain, Sweden, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016285
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Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State? : The Case of Sweden
Bengtsson, Tommy (ed.) - 2010
Pension System: The Eighth Wonder -- Ways of Funding and Organising Elderly Care in Sweden -- Financing Healthcare: A Gordian … taking Sweden as the case. Can the increasing number of retirees per worker be stopped by immigration or increasing fertility …
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Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries
Kangas, Olli (ed.); Palme, Joakim (ed.) - 2005
This volume examines the relationship between Nordic social policy and economic development from a comparative perspective. It identifies the driving forces behind the development of the Nordic welfare model and the problems and dilemmas the model is facing at present. The book also traces the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054116
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Swedish Economists in the 1930s Debate on Economic Planning
Carlson, Benny - 2018
planning emerged in Sweden in part due to the increasing political strength of the Social Democrats and their evolution from a … University School of Economics and Management, Sweden. Carlson first completed a degree in journalism and worked for 10 years at …
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Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe : Norway in Context
Frøland, Hans Otto (ed.); Ingulstad, Mats (ed.);  … - 2016
This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398200
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Banking Reforms in India : Consolidation, Restructuring and Performance
Bishnoi, T. R. - 2017
This book provides a historical evaluation of banking reforms and structural changes in India over the past 25 years. Chapters cover issues in consolidation and restructuring, competition and concentration, performance evaluation in terms of cost efficiency and productivity, profitability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231659
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Imitation, Counterfeiting and the Quality of Goods in Modern Asian History
Furuta, Kazuko (ed.); Grove, Linda (ed.) - 2017
This book focuses on the production of low-quality goods, the rise of markets for imitations and shoddy goods, and dishonest trading practices which developed along with the expansion of global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in East Asia. Fake, imitation, counterfeit, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019766
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A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II : Converging Trends and the Future of the Global Market
McNabb, David E. - 2016
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014277647
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Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand : Perspectives from the Neoliberal Frontier
Mays, Jennifer (ed.); Marston, Greg (ed.);  … - 2016
Basic income is an innovative, powerful egalitarian response to widening global inequalities and poverty experiences in society, one that runs counter to the neoliberal transformations of modern welfare states, social security, and labor market programs. This book is the first collective volume...
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