Tag: Scandinavian economic model
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Saturday Links
1. Research Digest reports that Students motivated by wealth are just as likely as others to help in an emergency "… Seventy-eight per cent of the business students offered some kind of help to the stranger. Sixty-six per cent went so far as refusing to leave the stranger or giving him/her their mobile phone. The…
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The Nordic Economic Model: Do Americans Know What They Are Arguing About?
Ever heard something like this? "Obama is going to make America a socialist country like those Europeans." or "We need a more just economic system like they have in Europe." Whenever discussions of economic systems arise in the U. S., we always seem to be comparing to "Europe." I write Europe in quotes because there…
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Are free markets the secret to Sweden’s success?
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Christian Science Monitor: Are free markets the secret to Sweden's success? Nima Sanandaji has written an interesting paper about Sweden. It largely points to the same historical facts that I have mentioned in my previous writings, namely that Sweden during its most free market oriented era, from 1870 to 1950, had the highest rate of…