Another Swedish question. Doesn't Sweden have one of the most concentrated industrial structures in the world?
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:20:44PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: > Devine, James wrote: > > >Also, I don't think anyone claimed that social democracy abolished the > >exploitation of labor or even reduced its degree. (I understand that > >businesses under Swedish social democracy did rather well in terms of > >profits, or at least that the big ones did. Doug would probably know about > >the income distribution data.) > > I don't know about the other Scandinavian countries, but in Sweden, > the labor unions and the government all conspired to keep profits > high. Firms were allowed to innovate and move upmarket, and workers > didn't worry about displacement, because they'd always find another > job. Until it started going bad in the 1980s, that is. > > Swedish income distribution was, at least until recently, about the > most egalitarian on earth - more even than in the USSR and other > outposts of actually existing socialism. > > Doug > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
