Economic Freedom Underpins Nordic Prosperity | The Heritage Foundation

The Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden offer valuable insights into the relative merits of various approaches to economic governance, both in short-term responses to the coronavirus epidemic and in the context of longer-term debates about the relative merits of socialist and capitalist ways of organizing economic activity. With a total population of 27 million, these countries as a whole have compiled a notable record of economic and social achievement. While the countries are sometimes identified as paragons of socialist success, the actual record tells a different story. For most of the past century, the region has been a bedrock of democracy, political stability, and free-market-based economic prosperity.

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Sad that we have to look to Sweden et al. for lessons in free market economy, but there you have it.