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To: thames_sider who wrote (13248)	2/24/2006 4:10:59 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541933

I don't know enough about the Scandinavian economies. But since you mention them, I'll be sure to read up on them.

To: thames_sider who wrote (13248)	2/24/2006 4:17:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

Maybe these exceptions prove that it requires particularly fine and foresighted government, I suspect the difference is that they work better in small, homogeneous populations.

To: thames_sider who wrote (13248)	2/24/2006 4:18:24 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

I would discount the microstates since they are easier to manage. I don't know that much about Scandinavia apart from the oil and gas revenues Norway enjoys that makes a lot of their welfare state possible. I would like to hear more about Sweden's model. But with only 9 million citizens, you are talking about the equivalent of one large city elsewhere. Norway only has 4.6 million. The chronicles of state-directed failures are many, from every continent.