Drawing on 32 months of interview-based ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines Finland’s “mankala” nuclear energy companies through the lens of anthropological theories of corporate form. Mankalas are limited liability companies run like zero-profit cooperatives that bring together...

This article presents an ethnographic account of one way humor has been enacted to foster a sense of ‘comedic camaraderie’ among young professionals in Finland’s nuclear energy sector. To this end, it details some of the lively, satirical, sometimes-edgy social games played at Suomen...

This paper compares the boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 with the average boom-bust pattern in industrialized countries as calculated from an international sample for the period 1970-2002. Two clear conclusions emerge. First, the Finnish-Swedish experience is much more volatile...