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"This is the only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the political economy of the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden). Five studies have been written within a project, and are based on thorough discussions on a common framework within which the distinct features of the economic policies of each separate country are analysed in a comparative perspective. The studies are accompanied by an extensive comparative discussion written collectively by the members of the project team that locates the Nordic model(s) within the wider map of capitalist varieties in the contemporary Western world. This book emphasizes the variety of experiences within the Nordic realm, from the dramatic collapse of Icelands economy as the financial bubble burst in 2008 to the full-employment oil-economy of Norway that proved virtually unaffected by the financial instabilities of 2008. It also identifies certain common transformations (particularly linked to the politics of immigration and integration, the persistent role of the unions, and new opportunities created by national systems of innovation)"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction / Fredrik Engelstadt and Lars Mj(c)ıset -- Current issues in comparative macrosociology : a debate on methodological issues / John H. Goldthorpe -- Turning the tables : how case-oriented research challenges variable-oriented research / Charles C. Ragin -- Means and ends of comparison in macrosociology / Charles Tilly -- Comparing historical sequences : a powerful tool for causal analysis / Dietrich Rueschenmeyer and John D. Stephens -- Stories, observations, systems, theories / Henry Teune -- On the concept of turning point / Andrew Abbott -- Methodological issues in comparative macrosociology / Jack A. Goldstone -- A response to the commentaries / John H. Goldthorpe -- Reduction of complexity for a small-n analysis : a stepwise multi-methodological approach / Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Gis(c)·le De Meur -- Measurement of education in comparative research / Michael Braun and Walter M(c)ơller -- Comparative political economy of life courses / Karl Ulrich Mayer -- Making institutions dynamic in cross-national research : time-space distancing in explaining unemployment / Thomas Janoski, Christa McGill, and Vanessa Tinsley

Two stones may be told about Norwegian macroeconomic management since 1973. The first one is the flexible‐adjustment story: Norway defended full employment using oil revenues to manage structural change. to keep manpower in the primary sectors and create new employment opportunities in the welfare state. The second is the paralysing‐rigidifies story: Norway used oil revenues to shelter its manufacturing industries and low‐productivity agriculture from competition, and to expand the welfare state which created numerous crowding out mechanisms. The first section below reviews some strong statements of these stories. while the following two sections review contemporary debates on the notions of flexibility and rigidity, relating also to the question of Norway's 'democratic corporatism'. The final two sections attempt to take a more detached look at the events about which the two stories are told. Five phases are distinguished, and the two 'consumption booms' (1973‐77 and 1984‐86) and the following austerity phases (1977‐81, 1986‐) are compared.