The Swedish welfare state is becoming more generous, not to the poor, but to the middle class. However, because the standards methods used to quantify redistribution are inadequate, most welfare-state scholars in economics, sociology, and political science have not noticed this development.

Andreas Bergh is a research fellow at the Ratio Institute in Stockholm.
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