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Sustainable Modernity - The Nordic Model and Beyond (Paperback)
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Sustainable Modernity - The Nordic Model and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
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The 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, institutional economics, Nordic studies and human
evolution studies.
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