Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Main Elements of the Swedish Welfare State -- 3 The Swedish Growth Experience -- 4 Growth, Government, and the Welfare State -- 5 Labor Market Interventions -- 6 Investment and...

Sweden has long been viewed as epitomizing a particular approach to economic and social policy. To its advocates, the Swedish welfare state builds on a strong social consensus favoring extensive state intervention to ensure a high quality of life for all Swedes. To its critics, the Swedish...