Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries

ANNELI ANTTONEN Professor of Social Policy, University of Tampere, FinlandEERO CARROLL Research Fellow, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, SwedenGÖSTA ESPING-ANDERSON Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, SpainTOMMY FERRARINI Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, SwedenKATJA FORSSÉN Professor of Social Work, University of Turku, FinlandJOHAN FRITZELL Professor of Sociology, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, SwedenPEKKA HIMANEN Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, FinlandJAAKKO KIANDER Research Director, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), FinlandWALTER KORPI Professor of Social Policy, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, SwedenOLLE LUNDBERG Professor of Health Equity Studies and Co-Director, Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, SwedenOLA SJÖBERG Assistant Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries: An Introduction; O.Kangas & J.Palme Coming Late - Catching Up: The Formation of a Nordic Model; O.Kangas & J.Palme Voluntary State-Subsidized Social Insurance in the Advanced Industrialized World Since the 1890s: The Nordic Experience in Comparative Perspective; E.Carroll Empowering Social Policy: The Role of Social Care Services in Modern Welfare States; A.Anttonen Family Policy and Cross-National Patterns of Poverty; T.Ferrarini & K.Forssén Education and Equal Life-Chances: Investing in Children; G.Esping-Andersen Fighting Health and Income: One Important Road to Welfare and Development; J.Fritzell & O.Lundberg Does the Welfare State Harm Economic Growth? Sweden as a Strategic Test Case; W.Korpi Growth and Employment in the Nordic Welfare State in the 1990s: Crisis and Revival; J.Kiander How to Maintain a Big Tax Welfare State?; O.Sjöberg The Nordic Model of the Information Society: The Finnish Case; P.Himanen Does the Most Brilliant Future of the Nordic Model have to be in the Past?; O.Kangas & J.Palme Index