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...