Webinar: Explaining Swedish Exceptionalism on COVID-19: Nordic Perspectives Is the Swedish approach to Covid-19 exceptional? Can we explain the approach based on history or the political system? In this webinar we bring together scholars and scientists from the Nordic countries to try to explain the divergence. Time and place: May 28, 2020 3:00 PM–4:00 PM, https://uio.zoom.us/j/68916251448…
Månad: maj 2020
The Making of a New Financial Culture: Embracing consumer debt and popular investing in the Nordic welfare state.
In 1979, the Swedish Consumer Cooperative Union, Konsum, introduced its own credit card. Although Sweden already had a number of smaller but rapidly growing cards systems, this was a landmark event triggering a veritable media storm. As a symbol of “arch-capitalistic consumerism” and “private-egoism” (AB 1/12 1979), a credit card accepted and issued by Konsum, appeared…