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Tagging posts in English As a service to non-Swedish speaking visitors I have a project: I will start giving new, and slowly also old, posts in the English language a special tag: English. In that way you should be able to find posts that you can read. All for now. Cheers /Åke
As a service to foreign friends. Here are two clips you must see – Piketty 1, Piketty 2 – from the Swedish-Norwegian talk show, Skavlan, with an excellent and revealing dialogue. Economist Thomas Piketty verbally undresses capitalist and CEO of Norwegian airlines, Bjoern Skos. Piketty among other things reveals CEO Skos’ tax sham (saying he […]
Today Sunday January 11 we are all Charlie. Manifestations all over the world, in Stockholm at 1.30 pm at Sergels torg. I am Charlie, for freedom of expression, against terror. Condemning the Paris slaughters. They cannot be justified in any way. However the drawings in Charlie Hebdo can be discussed. They are and should be […]
From the introduction to the report: Contested Nordic Models On the macro level the labour market model with its solidaristic wages policy, active labour market policy and job creation is at the heart of the Swedish model. It interacts with welfare and social security policy. On the micro level we find models of qualified, decent […]