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"New & Improved" with Johan Norberg || EP 590

Good Morning Liberty

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Sweden - The Golden Era in Modern Sweden

After a 100 year period of small government, free trade policies. Sweden was already the third or fourth richest country on the planet. We were so rich that we just thought that now the only question is, how do we redistribute this? And that's what happened. In 20 years, they doubled the size of government,. regulated most things and increased taxes quite a lot. The key here is that their perception of sweden is stuck in the 19 seventies... So they think we're still the way we were back then. But we realize something, back them, it just didn't worka sort of the background to this old idea of thinking about pik capitalism in the 19 sixties

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