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In 1986–1987, the Social Democratically governed Swedish welfare state appeared as a strange, fascinating paradox to an international opinion of business journalism and liberal economics. This new picture took off in the 4 August 1986 issue of the American Business Week, featuring an article on ‘How Sweden became Europe’s industrial powerhouse’, subtitled, ‘Ten years ago it was “the sickest of sick men”, now it’s the envy of the continent’.

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© 1991 Alfred Pfaller, Ian Gough and Göran Therborn

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Therborn, G. (1991). Sweden. In: Pfaller, A., Gough, I., Therborn, G. (eds) Can the Welfare State Compete?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10716-2_7

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