No wonder Wallander's depressed

In: The world today, Band 68, Heft 7, S. 14-16

Abstract

Sweden projects an unrealistic image to the world. It is a small country with a thriving cultural export industry that sells whatever the outside world will pay for, which is mostly escapism. Sweden has another influential export industry of policy wonks: people who sell the idea that what makes these countries special and delightful are their governments and the laws they pass. This might be called escapism for executives -- it is a fantasy of a country where all the really hard problems melt away under the pressure of decisive rationality and where spreadsheets work like magic to remodel the world into tidy boxes. Adapted from the source document.