A Swedish Economic Policy - The Theory, Application and Validity of the Rehn-Meidner Model

Lennart Erixon ()

No 2000:13, Research Papers in Economics from Stockholm University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The macroeconomic principles behind the Swedish model were developed by two trade union economists, Gösta Rehn and Rudolf Meidner, shortly after World War II. The Rehn-Meidner model respresents a unique third way between keynesianism and monetarism in its approach to combine full employment programs, a tight fiscal policy and wage policy of solidarity. This essay demonstrates the logic and comprehensive character of the Rehn-Mediner model, as well as the originality of its underlying economic theory. It aslo analyses the application of the model in Sweden during the post-war period. In the 1980s, the means of the model were largely abandoned. In the 1990s, the governments generally adopted the means of the model, but they were unable to combine low inflation with full employment. A renewed interest in the Rehn-Meidner model may emerge from recent declarations by the EU to prioritise full employment without giving up the objective of price stability.

Keywords: Fiscal policy; Fair Wages; Productivity; Inflation; Labour demnad; Labour mobility; Swedish model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E31 E62 J23 J31 J62 O23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2000-10-05
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