Northern Lights: bright ideas from Nordic countries

[barryqwalsh]

The Nordic countries have both economic prosperity and social equality and Andrew Scott believes that Australian governments should adopt similar policies on work life balance, employment, education and child development.

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Northern Lights bright ideas from Nordic countries - Life Matters - ABC Radio National Australian Broadcasting Corporation

 

[barryqwalsh]

Should America adopt some Nordic policies?

 

[Freewill]

Should America adopt some Nordic policies?

When Scandinavia was predominently of one race they did very well, so well that they attracted immigration. But what has that done for them?

You need to read this:

Tino Sanandaji is among the last people one would expect to argue that immigrants pose a threat to Sweden’s way of life. An economist at Stockholm’s renowned free-market think tank Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sanandaji is a member of a Swedish elite that has long defended open borders. And his own life offers a clear example of an immigrant success story: Sanandaji arrived in Sweden from Iran in 1989, with his mother and younger brother, when he was nine years old. With financial assistance from the Swedish government, Sanandaji was able to attend the elite Stockholm School of Economics. From there he moved to the United States, where he earned a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago.

And yet Sanandaji now argues that Sweden should stop taking in people who share his background. “Immigration has meant that Sweden has imported a bunch of social and economic problems that to a degree didn’t exist before,” he tells me, sitting in a modern conference room at his office in the upscale Östermalm neighborhood of Stockholm. “For a number of reasons -- a long period of peace, a homogenous population -- Sweden has had a unique combination of welfare, growth, and equality. That idyll is to a certain degree over.”

Ivar Ekman How Immigrants Are Changing Sweden s Welfare State Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs

 

[aplcr0331]

The "ideas" they need to get from Nordic countries, is more Nordic people.

 

[The Rabbi]

Stagnant economics and declining birth rates sound like ideas not to copy.