If you look at almost any list measuring human development around the world, you can be sure that Scandinavian countries are somewhere at the top. But what's their secret?

00:00 - Intro
01:01 - The Birth of the Nordic Model
02:31 - Part 1: The Welfare State
06:56 - Part 2: The Great Compromise
08:22 - Part 3: Social Trust
10:13 - The Origin of Social Trust

References, sources and further reading

Intro:
https://worldjusticeproject.org/rule-...
https://pages.eiu.com/rs/753-RIQ-438/...
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rank....
https://fragilestatesindex.org/global...
https://ourworldindata.org/trust
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/0...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1...

The Birth of the Nordic Model:
https://nordics.info/show/artikel/red...
https://nordics.info/show/artikel/the...

Part 1: The Welfare State
https://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp873.pdf
https://herususetyodotcom.files.wordp...
https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publ...

Part 2: The Great Compromise
https://tidsskrift.dk/scandinavian_po...

Part 3: Social Trust
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...
https://www.socialeurope.eu/wp-conten...
https://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/...

The Origin of Social Trust
https://www.econstor.eu/dspace/bitstr...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4621213
https://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/...
https://sciencenorway.no/forskningno-...
https://www.emerald.com/insight/conte...
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine....
https://sciencenordic.com/denmark-eco...