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- Skyrman, Viktor, et al.
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Financialized accumulation, neoliberal hegemony, and the transformation of the Swedish Welfare Model, 1980–2020
- 2022
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Ingår i: Capital and Class. - : SAGE Publications. - 0309-8168 .- 2041-0980.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on a Gramscian Regulation Approach and Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession thesis, this article discusses the structural and hegemonic mechanisms of the neoliberal transformation of Sweden’s welfare sectors. Providing new longitudinal data on welfare retrenchment, corporate governance, wealth shares, and private economic power, the article further analyzes how the transformation of the Swedish post-war universal welfare model is related to class struggle and accumulation regime change in the Swedish economy. Following a decade-long countermobilization of Swedish capital and a severe economic crisis in the early 1990s, neoliberal economic common sense was cemented among social democratic policy elites that manifested itself in an institutionalized austerity polity, leading to a slow but steady dismantling of the Swedish welfare project. Roughly a fifth of employees in the three largest welfare sectors work in private welfare companies that generate tax-financed profits on politically created welfare markets. Welfare profits are in turn defended by a welfare–industrial complex and undergirded by a hegemonic bloc consisting of capital elites and sympathetic policymakers. In the virtual absence of vocal antihegemonic forces, many social democratic leaders have limited criticism against welfare profits throughout the last decades. On the contrary, austerity measures practiced by Swedish social democrats have thereto led to deteriorating social cohesion and spawned distrust among core social democratic voters.
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- Egels-Zandén, Niklas, 1978, et al.
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The UN Global Compact and the Enlightenment tradition: A rural electrification project under the aegis of the UN Global Compact
- 2009
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - : Wiley. - 1535-3958 .- 1535-3966. ; 16:5, s. 264-277
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite extensive academic debate as to what CSR and other related concepts ought to encompass, there is a lack of critical analysis of what CSR in practice entails, i.e. what actually constitutes CSR practices. This paper critically addresses this question by focusing on one of the most influential CSR initiatives – the UN Global Compact. We demonstrate that the Global Compact principles are rooted in a European Enlightenment tradition and, based on a study of an Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) CSR project in a Tanzanian village, we illustrate how these Global Compact principles translate into corporate projects that challenge local institutions, while leaving the underlying Global Compact principles unquestioned. The paper concludes by opening a space for discussing the desirability of the Enlightenment tendencies manifested in Global Compact projects.
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- Kallifatides, Markus, et al.
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The politicisation of macroprudential regulation: The critical Swedish case
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning A. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1472-3409 .- 0308-518X. ; 50:3, s. 709-729
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the prospects of stabilising financialisation in Europe as a spatial-temporal fix for Anglo-American capitalism’s crisis-tendencies. We analyse the politics of (countercyclical) macroprudential regulation in the critical case study of Sweden. Here, macroprudential regulation is introduced, in contrast with much of the rest of the EU economies, in a credit boom. We find evidence of an administrative crisis, as technocrats face the political constraints on re-regulating financialised accumulation. This suggests that the conditions are ripe for a deepened administrative crisis in Europe once countercyclical macroprudential regulation is implemented.
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- Kallifatides, Markus
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Vad menas med 'Greklandskrisen'?'
- 2014
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 42:2, s. 52-55
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