Sweden
A small open economy with world-class industrial and consumer exporters, dual-class share structures that keep control in a few families, and a 1990s banking crisis that became the template for bank resolution. The English-language literature on that crisis is unusually thin.
9 books
Start here
- The Spotify PlaySven Carlsson, Jonas Leijonhufvud, 2019
- The Swedish ExperimentAssar Lindbeck, 1997
- Reforming the Welfare StateRichard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, Robert H. Topel, 2010
Books 9
Assar Lindbeck · 1997 · The insider economist's account of what the welfare state did to incentives.
Sven Carlsson, Jonas Leijonhufvud · 2019 · How a Swedish startup negotiated with the major labels and won.
Marquis W. Childs · 1936 · The book that made the Swedish model an international reference point.
Bertil Torekull, Ingvar Kamprad · 1999 · The IKEA story told with the founder; cost obsession and the ownership structure.
Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, Robert H. Topel · 2010 · NBER volume on the post-crisis reforms that restored Swedish growth.
Anders Dahlvig · 2011 · Insider: the CEO who took IKEA global on how the model actually works.
Michael Booth · 2014 · The sceptical counterweight; useful on how the model actually operates.
George Lakey · 2016 · A sympathetic survey of how the Nordic model is financed.
Ulf Olsson · 2000 · Marcus Wallenberg and the bank-industry structure that still controls Swedish capital.