ABSTRACT
The political and economic realm in the Western World was confronted with something called the “Nordic model” as a “plausible” solution to its financial crisis and inflation. The public display of the Nordic model by the OECD in 1973 was thus a kind of Western coronation, which was in its essence perhaps not very original but which acted as a catalyst, not least within the Nordic region itself. The quasi-global canonization of the Nordic model by the OECD in 1973 did not just come suddenly, but it was sanctified at the “highest level” following decades of Western-global reasoning efforts to communicate the specific nature of the Nordic order of social, economic, and political life “to the outside world.” The public display of the Nordic model by the OECD in 1973 was thus a kind of Western coronation, which was in its essence perhaps not very original but which acted as a catalyst, not least within the Nordic region itself.
