On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a starting point for my reading, of course.. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_welfare#History Seems to suggest that "...certain cultural norms dating back to the small agrarian villages... asserted conformity and egalitarianism over individualism [and] the welfare state was built much thanks to the ruling party being the Swedish Social Democratic Party, the large unions that encompassed almost the entire population, and the industries that were similarly almost all unionized." -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org/