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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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The Nordics

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Weak as a business literature, but not empty. The comparative economics of the model is covered properly, and there is a sceptical counter-literature. The specific investable stories, the Swedish 1992 bank resolution, the Norwegian oil fund, the Danish pension system, still live mostly in academic papers and official reports.

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  1. The Almost Nearly Perfect PeopleMichael Booth, 2014
  2. The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945Mary Hilson, 2008
  3. The Nordic Model: Embracing Globalization and Sharing RisksTorben M. Andersen, Bengt Holmstrom, Seppo Honkapohja, Sixten Korkman, Hans Tson Soderstrom, Juhana Vartiainen, 2007
The Nordic Model: Embracing Globalization an
T3 The Nordic Model: Embracing Globalization and Sharing Risks
Torben M. Andersen, Bengt Holmstrom, Seppo Honkapohja, Sixten Korkman, Hans Tson Soderstrom, Juhana Vartiainen · 2007
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Economists' report on how small open economies combine flexibility with heavy taxation.

The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945
T3 The Nordic Model: Scandinavia since 1945
Mary Hilson · 2008
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What the Nordic model is, where it came from and where the countries differ.

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, GovernanSovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power
T3 Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power
Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H. B. Monk · 2013
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The reference on SWF governance; Norges Bank Investment Management is the central case.

Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization
T4 Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization
Peer Hull Kristensen, Kari Lilja · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Firm-level study of how Nordic companies reorganised for global production.

The Almost Nearly Perfect PeopleThe Almost Nearly Perfect People
T4 The Almost Nearly Perfect People
Michael Booth · 2014
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Journalistic, but the Denmark chapters on debt, tax and the flexicurity bargain are substantive.

Scandinavian UnexceptionalismScandinavian Unexceptionalism
T4 Scandinavian Unexceptionalism
Nima Sanandaji · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

The sceptical case: prosperity preceded the welfare state, not the reverse.

Debunking UtopiaDebunking Utopia
T4 Debunking Utopia
Nima Sanandaji · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Longer version of the same argument, aimed at American admirers of the model.

Viking EconomicsViking Economics
T4 Viking Economics
George Lakey · 2016
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Popular and partisan, but the clearest short account of the Nordic bargain.

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