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Friday, November 4, 2016

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Sweden

Dan Mitchell

I’m in Sweden today, where I just spoke before Timbro (a prominent classical liberal think tank) about the US elections and the implications for public policy.  My main message was pessimism since neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton support genuine entitlement reform.  But I’ve addressed that topic many times before. Today, motivated by my trip, I want to augment my analysis about Sweden from 10 days ago.

In that column, I highlighted some research from Professor Olle Kranz showing that Sweden became a rich nation during a free-market era when government was relatively small. And as you can see from his chart (I added the parts in red), this is also when per-capita economic output in Sweden caught up with – and eventually surpassed – per-capita GDP in other advanced countries......To Read More....

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