economic and social policies common to the Nordic countries, including a comprehensive welfare state and collective bargaining at the national level, while being based on the economic foundations of free market capitalism
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online spots a disturbing trend in American public life. Scholars of government think a great deal about trust, consensus, legitimacy, and other related issues. One…
Paul Mirengoff of the Power Line blog explores Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders’ particular brand of socialism. Whenever Bernie Sanders’s socialism comes up in the Democratic debates, he deflects criticism…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online looks ahead to the possible nomination of Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential candidate. A Sanders nomination would turn the race on…
Mitchell Nemeth uses a Foundation for Economic Education column to explore the notion that Scandinavian countries offer some sort of socialist paradise. As the 2020 presidential election nears, progressive candidates…
Daniel Schatz writes for Commentary magazine about myths and facts connected to the Swedish economy. Sweden’s period of classical economic liberalism did not last. The decades that followed were characterized…
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily explore the impact of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s policy pronouncements. During an interview on “60 Minutes,” Anderson Cooper put this question to Ocasio-Cortez: “When people…
Julia Howe and Anthony Kim explain in a Daily Signal column why those who proclaim support for socialism should think twice before citing Sweden and Denmark to support their claims.…
Nima Sanandaji of the Cato Institute urges caution for those who believe the United States should follow Nordic countries’ lead when it comes to gender-equity programs. A common view is…
Rich Lowry‘s latest National Review Online column explores Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ fascination with Scandinavian socialism. Scandinavia is the American Left’s Shangri-La. It is the land of social democracy…
Here is an excellent Reason TV video with JLF friend Ted Balaker. The subject is Sweden and it turns out that the country is less socialistic than we generally think,…
Interventionists have lately been twittering about the supposed excellence of “the Nordic Model” which is to say the high-tax, welfare state systems prevalent in the Scandinavian countries. Cato’s Daniel Mitchell…