Tag: Scandinavian model
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Should Uncle Sam Chase a Scandinavian Model?
New Geography: Should Uncle Sam Chase a Scandinavian Model? When American progressives dream their future vision of America, no place entices them more than the sparsely populated countries of Scandinavia. After all, here are countries that remain strongly democratic and successfully capitalist, yet appear to have done so despite enormously pervasive welfare systems. … ……
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The Nordic countries: The next supermodel
The Economist: The Nordic countries: The next supermodel Politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries. …The idea of lean Nordic government will come as a shock both to French leftists who dream of socialist Scandinavia and to American conservatives who fear that Barack Obama is bent on “Swedenisation”. They are…
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Nordic Countries Reinventing Their Model of Capitalism
The Economist: Nordic Countries Reinventing Their Model of Capitalism … Sweden has reduced public spending as a proportion of GDP from 67% in 1993 to 49% today. It could soon have a smaller state than Britain. It has also cut the top marginal tax rate by 27 percentage points since 1983, to 57%, and scrapped…