Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too

He explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world’s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how, if we can enact some of the changes the Scandinavians fought for surprisingly recently, we, too, can embrace equality in our economic policy.. The US and UK are too big, or too individualistic, or too something. Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism.   In Viking Economics—now with a new afterword by the author—George Lakey dispels these myths. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! Great lessons for America to learn from if we want to bring back the middle class again and prevent a culture of unhealthy financial, economical and psychological dependency Universal health care, paid parental leave, paid vacation, free college, social mobility, retirement pensions, high trust society, transparent governments etc When you create the right conditions for people to get their needs met t. "Viking Culture Once Again in the Vanguard" according to Kate O.. Fabulous read, with great facts and statistics presented in a very engaging and readable formatbrings the Scandinavian countries to life, and explains simply how their way of life and economy/culture supports a vibrant and forward-thinking, as well as very successful socioeconomic society that combines both freedom, equality of opportunity in personal and professional life choices, and the basic life n. sudy said This puts USA to shame! We can do better!!. Amazing summary of the incredible benefits of these economies, and how they got that way. More people should read it and get active to make the USA follow their lead.

George Lakey is great at explaining why.” —Bill McKibben, environmentalist and author, Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, founder of 350“Carrying student debt? Working longer hours with no vacation?  Do you wonder if it is possible for the U.S. As a result, Viking Economics tells a story of economic change and the foundations on which it was built at a time when it is so obvious that such narratives are desperately needed in modern political discourse.”—Richard Murphy, Times Higher Education magazine “Viking Economics shows us there's no reason we couldn't be making far more progress across a wide range of problems. “Here, Lakey combines historical analysis, economic data and interview-based opinion to produce something that delivers much more than each of those could do in isolation. to reverse a generation of extreme inequality?  It doesn’t have to be this

GEORGE LAKEY is Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College. . He is the author of many books and articles and has written for Waging Nonviolence and Common Dreams, among other publications