EP1: Bumblebee Nation: Can the Swedish Model Still “Fly”?

High wages, strong unions, generous welfare and regulated markets. Sweden has been compared to a bumblebee. It should be too heavy and weighed down to fly. But that doesn’t stop it from soaring.

Our guests today are David Crouch, British journalist based in Sweden and author of  Bumblebee Nation: The Hidden story of the new Swedish model and Almost Perfekt: How Sweden Works and what we can learn from it, and Lena Sellgren, chief economist at Business Sweden. 

The Smart Society Sweden Podcast is hosted by Elizabeth Walentin and is a project of the Karl-Adam Bonnier Foundation and Business Sweden.

See the Smart Society Summit live on stage from Expo2020 in Dubai on December 15th. Sign up here. 

Be sure to get your copy of David Crouch's book Bumblebee Nation: The hidden story of the new Swedish model.