When people think about the free and prosperous places on earth, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, and a few other small countries usually come to mind. Here’s one more that should — Iceland. In this interesting article from the British Spectator, the author explains that, thanks to having stayed out of the web of statist control known as the European Union, Iceland has been able to make itself into one of the great success stories in the moden world.
Just one quibble. The author regards the US as among the top countries with regard to freedom. But we have been slipping and look good only in comparison with countries like France and Germany. I’d say that he US hasn’t been a really free country since about 1912. And we too have our EU problem, except that it’s called Washington. If individual states were free to say to the feds, “You have no constitutional authority to tell us how to run our affairs,” there would probably be as much difference between, say, North Carolina and New York as between Iceland and France.
