Darius Ornston is Assistant Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in comparative political economy and innovation policy. He is the author of When Small States Make Big Leaps, and his work has also been published by Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance, Review of Policy Research, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the OECD, and the World Bank.

Ornston shows how we can recognize this mechanism by a wider pattern of logical entailments, negative as well as positive. The book is carefully designed to reveal that pattern and painstakingly researched to bring it to life.(Governance) Darius Ornston has built on years of comparative political economic studies to provide an ambitious if demanding critical study of the region... [he] has made an important empirical and theoretical contribution.(EuropeNow) Ornston's book is a must-read not only for academics but also for Nordic policy makers, businesspeople, and all institutional actors who are keen to make rapid reforms in the name of innovation and change.(American Journal of Sociology)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Nordic Paradox1. Good Governance Gone Bad: Overshooting in Nordic Europe2. Manufacturing a Crisis: Planning in Sweden3. Connecting People: Innovation in Finland4. From Banking on Fish to Fishy Banks: Liberalization in Iceland5. Overshooting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Cases6. Overshooting beyond Nordic Europe: Ireland and EstoniaConclusion: Lessons for Large StatesAppendix 1: Measuring Cohesive, Encompassing NetworksAppendix 2: Characterizing Economic AdjustmentNotesReferencesIndex

Darius Ornston is Assistant Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in comparative political economy and innovation policy. He is the author of When Small States Make Big Leaps, and his work has also been published by Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance, Review of Policy Research, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the OECD, and the World Bank.

Ornston shows how we can recognize this mechanism by a wider pattern of logical entailments, negative as well as positive. The book is carefully designed to reveal that pattern and painstakingly researched to bring it to life.(Governance) Darius Ornston has built on years of comparative political economic studies to provide an ambitious if demanding critical study of the region... [he] has made an important empirical and theoretical contribution.(EuropeNow) Ornston's book is a must-read not only for academics but also for Nordic policy makers, businesspeople, and all institutional actors who are keen to make rapid reforms in the name of innovation and change.(American Journal of Sociology)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Nordic Paradox1. Good Governance Gone Bad: Overshooting in Nordic Europe2. Manufacturing a Crisis: Planning in Sweden3. Connecting People: Innovation in Finland4. From Banking on Fish to Fishy Banks: Liberalization in Iceland5. Overshooting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Cases6. Overshooting beyond Nordic Europe: Ireland and EstoniaConclusion: Lessons for Large StatesAppendix 1: Measuring Cohesive, Encompassing NetworksAppendix 2: Characterizing Economic AdjustmentNotesReferencesIndex

Darius Ornston is Assistant Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in comparative political economy and innovation policy. He is the author of When Small States Make Big Leaps, and his work has also been published by Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance, Review of Policy Research, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the OECD, and the World Bank.

Ornston shows how we can recognize this mechanism by a wider pattern of logical entailments, negative as well as positive. The book is carefully designed to reveal that pattern and painstakingly researched to bring it to life.(Governance) Darius Ornston has built on years of comparative political economic studies to provide an ambitious if demanding critical study of the region... [he] has made an important empirical and theoretical contribution.(EuropeNow) Ornston's book is a must-read not only for academics but also for Nordic policy makers, businesspeople, and all institutional actors who are keen to make rapid reforms in the name of innovation and change.(American Journal of Sociology)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Nordic Paradox1. Good Governance Gone Bad: Overshooting in Nordic Europe2. Manufacturing a Crisis: Planning in Sweden3. Connecting People: Innovation in Finland4. From Banking on Fish to Fishy Banks: Liberalization in Iceland5. Overshooting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Cases6. Overshooting beyond Nordic Europe: Ireland and EstoniaConclusion: Lessons for Large StatesAppendix 1: Measuring Cohesive, Encompassing NetworksAppendix 2: Characterizing Economic AdjustmentNotesReferencesIndex