Tag: Sweden
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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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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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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…
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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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What to Look For in the Nordic Model
New Geography: What to Look For in the Nordic Model The Nordic nations, and Sweden in particular, are seen by many as the proof that it is possible to combine innovative and entrepreneurial economies with high tax rates. It is often argued that nations such as the US can gain the attractive social features of…
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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…
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Free Market Sweden, Social Democratic America
The American Spectator: Free Market Sweden, Social Democratic America … But two things distinguished Sweden's welfare state from the very beginning. First, Sweden's progressives cleverly marketed their ideas as a way of realizing what they called a folkhemmet (people's home). The emphasis was upon realizing a once-overwhelmingly peasant society's traditional values in a context of…
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Sweden Says No to Saving Saab
New York Times: Sweden Says No to Saving Saab TROLLHATTAN, Sweden — Saab Automobile may be just another crisis-ridden car company in an industry full of them. But just as the fortunes of Flint, Mich., are permanently entangled with General Motors, so it is impossible to find anyone in this city in southwest Sweden who…