Un confronto tra il modello nordico e quello liberale.
"...per capita GDP in the United States is more than 15 percent higher than
it is in the Nordic nations. The gap is even larger when comparing disposable
income, private consumption, and other measures that reflect living
standards..."
E questo pure se...
"...there is much to applaud in Nordic nations. They have open markets, low
levels of regulation, strong property rights, stable currencies, and many other
policies associated with growth and prosperity. Indeed, Nordic nations generally
rank among the world's most market-oriented nations.... Every Nordic nation has
a lower corporate tax rate than the United States, for example, and most of them
have low-rate flat tax systems for capital income. Iceland even has a flat tax
for labor income. And both Iceland and Sweden have partially privatized their
social security retirement systems..."
