Congressional Issues 2010
SOCIALISM OR CAPITALISM?
The Scandinavian "Solution"

• not follow the Scandinavian model
• allow the "Invisible Hand" to bring order to society

Does the example of Sweden or Denmark prove the wisdom of an extensive welfare state? Before deciding, read the following:

• The Surprising Ingredients of Swedish Success: Free Markets and Social Cohesion
• Booming Sweden’s Free-Market Solution
• The Scandinavian Welfare Myth Revisited
• How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich
• The Sweden Myth
• The Truth About SwedenCare
• Stagnating Socialist Sweden
• Professor Per Bylund of Baylor University has a good chapter on the Swedish welfare state in Tom Woods' book Back on the Road to Serfdom.
• Woods talked to Per on this episode of the Tom Woods Show. (Subscribe on iTunes!)
• Gates of Vienna: The New York Times and Sweden: The Dark Side of Paradise
  • Maybe the welfare state only seemed to be a success in Scandinavia because these nations had been dynamic capitalist countries prior to this, ethnically homogeneous and based upon a Protestant work ethic. While this legacy kept the welfare system afloat for some time, it is now rapidly being eroded.
• How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden - Per Bylund - Mises Institute
• The Swedish Model | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary
• Are Living Standards Higher in Denmark or the United States? | Cato @ Liberty
• The Local - Sweden aims to halve sick leave
• Making Poor Nations Rich The Independent Institute
• Are High Taxes the Basis of Freedom and Prosperity? | The Foundation for Economic Education
• The New Sweden | The Foundation for Economic Education
• Sweden's Empty Smörgåsbord | The Foundation for Economic Education
• "Should Scandinavia Be Our Model?" featuring Johnny Munkhammar (Cato Institute: Daily Podcast)
• Cato Institute: Should the United States Be More Like Scandinavia? (Policy Forum)
• “Official figures do not tell the whole story” ~ Cafebabel
• Sweden and the Myth of Benevolent Socialism
• Sweden, Capitalism, and the Welfare State by Nima Sanandaji
• Private Welfare in Sweden by Nima Sanandaji
• Commie Comics by Nima Sanandaji
• Sweden, Banana Republic by Per Bylund
• Sweden: From Capitalist Success to Welfare-State Sclerosis
• Per Bylund - Swedish Writer
• What is wrong with the Scandinavian model? - The Mises Community
• Manipulism and the Weapon of Guilt: Collectivism Exposed - The example of Denmark

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