Ep. 338 Did Sweden Succeed Because of Government?
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
About the Guest
Johan Norberg is the author of 15 books, and a senior fellow both at the Cato Institute and the European Centre for International Political Economy.
Sampling of Books by the Guest
Financial Fiasco
In Defense of Global Capitalism
Article by the Guest
“How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich”
Guest’s Facebook
Guest’s Twitter
Related Episode
Ep. 17: Is Sweden a Good Model? (Per Bylund)
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.1 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 338. |
| 0:38.6 | Sweden comes up quite a bit when you're arguing about the free market. |
| 0:42.4 | You get told, look at Sweden. |
| 0:44.3 | It prospered with all kinds of government intervention, with all kinds of welfare state spending. |
| 0:50.0 | What's the matter with you, you dogmatic libertarian? |
| 0:53.0 | So we need to know how to answer that. |
| 0:55.4 | And joining us today to help us answer that question is Johann Norberg coming to us from Sweden, |
| 1:02.0 | where he was born and raised. |
| 1:05.2 | Johann Norberg is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, and he's also a senior fellow at the |
| 1:10.7 | European Center for |
| 1:11.8 | International Political Economy in Brussels. He's the author of 15 books, including |
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