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IN all three Scandinavian countries, including Denmark, manufacturing industry is a major contributor to the Gross National Product. In Denmark manufacturing, handicrafts, utilities, and building and construction accounted for 37 per cent of the GNP in 1949.1 In Norway the corresponding percentage was 46,2 and in Sweden it would be well over 40.3

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  1. Ebbe Groes, ‘Staten, Erhvervslivet og Forbrugerne’, Nationalϕkonomisk Tidsskrift (1947, 1–2 Hefte), p. 11. Similar barriers to entry erected by wartime controls were reported for Sweden, see Utredningar angaende ekonomisk efter-krigsplanering, XII (Monographs on Post-War Planning, XII), betänkande angaende övervakning av konkurrensbegränsande företeelser inom näringslivet(Report on Supervision of Restrictive Business Practices), S.O.U. 1945: 42, particularly pp. 53–61.

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  2. Ebbe Groes, ‘Staten, Erhvervslivet og Forbrugeme’, Nationalϕkonomisk Tidsskrift (1947, 1–2 Hefte), p. 6.

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  3. Josef Anér, Om konkurrens ittom detaljhandeln, Företagande, ekonomi och teknik (Stockholm, 1949), p. 28 ff.

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  4. Marquis Childs in Sweden, The Middle Way(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1936), pp. 37–39.

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  5. J. Th. Arnfred, Sever in Jϕrgensen (Copenhagen, 1942), p. 60.

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  6. A. Axelsen Drejer, Den danske Andelsbevcegelse (Copenhagen, 1934), p. 258.

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  7. Thorsten Odhe, Konsumentkooperationen som industrifdretagare (Stockholm, 1932), p. 30.

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Brems, H. (1954). Monopoly and Competition in Scandinavia. In: Chamberlin, E.H. (eds) Monopoly and Competition and their Regulation. International Economic Association Coference Numbers 1–50. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08434-0_8

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