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Different Development Paths in the North-Western Countries

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The fact that the economic crisis affected the UK and Ireland more severely than it did the other North-Western EU member states may raise doubts about whether in the future they will still be as successful as they were before the crisis when—as described above—they were among the most competitive within the EU, besides the Nordic countries. Therefore, it is reasonable to put these countries into an individual sub-category—as they were before the crisis—and investigate the institutional changes that have taken place since the outbreak of the crisis.

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Farkas, B. (2016). Different Development Paths in the North-Western Countries. In: Models of Capitalism in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60057-8_6

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