1st Edition

Nordic Neoliberalisms Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics after 1970

Edited By Jenny Andersson, Chris Howell Copyright 2025
260 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing on a cross-disciplinary perspective from history and social science, this book examines what is common to neoliberalism, and where it differs, in four Nordic countries across four key sectors of liberalization: capital markets, labor markets, industrial relations and the welfare state. Assessing its scope and forms, the actors involved, processes and mechanisms, and how it has been... Read more

Introduction: Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics after 1970

Jenny Andersson and Chris Howell

Part 1: Historical Precedents

1. Nordic Neoliberals in Intellectual History

Jenny Andersson and Niklas Olsen

2. From NIEO-liberalism to Neoliberalism: Denmark, Sweden, and the Changing Role of Development Finance

Nikolas Glover, Jeppe Nevers, Kristine Kjaersgaard and Urban Lundberg

3. Rights against the welfare state: Timbro and the neoliberal mobilisation of legalist constitutionalism in Sweden, 1980–2000

Johan Strang

4. Wage Earners, Taxpayers, or Every Man Capitalists? The Making of a Mutual Fund Culture in Sweden

Orsi Husz, David Larsson Heidenblad and Elin Åström Rudberg

5. Capital Interest: Privatization in Sweden

Jenny Andersson

Part 2: Social Science

6. Interrogating Nordic Neoliberalism: Industrial Relations Change in Nordic Countries

Chris Howell

7. Economic Inequality in the Nordics in Times of Neoliberalism

Erik Bengtsson

8. Scandinavian Family-State Relations in Neoliberal Times: The Politics of Parenthood in Scandinavia 1970s to 1990s

Cecilie Bjerre and Klaus Petersen

9. The Fictitious Commodification of Nordic Social Democratic Capital: Three Hypotheses

Stephanie Lee Mudge

10. Neoliberalisation and Financialisation: Icelandic exceptionalism - Booms, Busts and Neoliberal Continuity

Claes Belfrage and Owen Worth

11. The Norwegian Derisking State: Residual Neoliberalism in the Green Transition

Ola Innset

Biography

Jenny Andersson is Professor of the History of Ideas and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Chris Howell is currently the JY Pillay Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College and Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oberlin College, USA.