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dc.contributor.editorWitoszek, Nina
dc.contributor.editorMidttun, Atle
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-21 15:58:54
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T09:44:23Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T09:44:23Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier1006010
dc.identifierOCN: 1135845393en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24121
dc.description.abstractThe Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary sense: though by no means following the same socio-economic formula, they are all cases of a "non-hubristic", socially sustainable modernity that puzzles outside observers. Using Nordic welfare states as its laboratory, Sustainable Modernity combines evolutionary and socio-cultural perspectives to illuminate the mainsprings of what the authors call the "well-being society". The main contention is that the Nordic uniqueness is not merely the outcome of one particular set of historical institutional or political arrangements, or sheer historical luck; rather, the high welfare creation inherent in the Nordic model has been predicated on a long and durable tradition of social cooperation, which has interacted with global competitive forces. Hence the socially sustainable Nordic modernity should be approached as an integrated and tightly orchestrated ecosystem based on a complex interplay of cooperative and competitive strategies within and across several domains: normative-cultural, socio-political and redistributive. The key question is: Can the Nordic countries uphold the balance of competition and cooperation and reproduce their resilience in the age of globalization, cultural collisions, the digital economy, the fragmentation of the work/life division, and often intrusive EU regulation? With contributors providing insights from the humanities, the social sciences and evolutionary science, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, history, institutiona
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Sustainability
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social servicesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economiesen_US
dc.subject.othersustainable futures
dc.subject.otherNordic welfare
dc.subject.otherwelfare state
dc.subject.otherNorway
dc.subject.otherDenmark
dc.subject.otherSweden
dc.subject.otherQualtiy of life
dc.subject.othersustainable communities
dc.subject.otherresilient communities
dc.subject.otherAtle Midttun
dc.subject.otherDavid Sloan Wilson
dc.subject.otherDag O. Hessen
dc.subject.otherØystein Sørensen
dc.subject.otherKirsti Klette
dc.subject.otherLars Trägårdh
dc.subject.otherCathrine Holst
dc.subject.otherKelly McKowen
dc.subject.otherNik Brandal
dc.subject.otherDag Einar Thorsen
dc.subject.otherLennart Olsson
dc.subject.otherJerome Lieberman
dc.subject.otherPamela Izvanariu
dc.titleSustainable Modernity
dc.title.alternativeThe Nordic Model and Beyond
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315195964
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb
oapen.relation.isbn9781138718210;9781351765633;9781351765619
oapen.identifier.ocn1135845393


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