Конкуренция, сотрудничество и удовлетворенность жизнью. Часть 2. Основа лидерства – коллаборативные преимущества

Competition, Collaboration, and Life Satisfaction Part 2. The Fundament of Leadership - Collaborative Advantage

Victor Polterovich
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Виктор Меерович Полтерович

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Abstract: The first part of the paper showed that the group of seven European countries leading the life satisfaction index (happiness index) significantly outperformed other Western nations, including the United States, in the development of economic and political institutions. The Seven includes Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The second part examines what qualitative features of socio-economic and political mechanisms provide leadership. It is noted that attempts to explain this phenomenon by the low size of population and its homogeneity, as well as by the small area of these countries, are inadequate. The notion of collaborative advantages is introduced, understood as relatively more developed mechanisms of collaboration in the economic, social and political spheres. Based on three different classifications of types of capitalism and on an analysis of the history of countries of the Seven we show that they have reached the leading positions due to collaborative advantages. These countries are coordinated market economies, their economic systems are characterized as stakeholder capitalism, and their political systems are consensus democracies. The Seven of European Leaders carry out reforms aimed at improving collaboration mechanisms and, as a consequence, are less affected by the crisis of competitive institutions observed in Western societies. The presented results support the hypothesis that the strengthening of the role of collaboration mechanisms while reducing the importance of competitive mechanisms contributes to higher life satisfaction. The experience of the Seven is used by other developed European countries as well. The question of how our findings can be used in choosing a catching-up strategy is discussed.

Keywords: coordinated market economies; stakeholder capitalism; consensus democracies; collaboration; Nordicization; reforms; catching-up development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 O10 O52 P10 P41 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-05-11
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