{"id":11040,"date":"2010-05-24T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2010-05-24T07:15:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:15:37","slug":"alternate-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11040","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States becomes more socialistic, the grandaddy of socialist nations, Sweden, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.tv\/video\/show\/andreas-bergh-inteview\">owes its ongoing success to a gradual rejection of socialism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In The Capitalist Welfare State, Lund University economist Andreas Bergh explains how Sweden has managed to increase economic productivity despite its large public sector.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"427\" height=\"254\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vG51uCrYxVM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"427\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vG51uCrYxVM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bergh says that despite popular mythology, Sweden is not a socialist success story but instead owes its economic growth to the lowered tax rates and deregulation of the early 1990s, which allowed innovation and investment to flourish. Bergh also discusses how Sweden&#8217;s national voucher program revitalized the country&#8217;s educational system and warns that Americans who are hoping to emulate Swedish success by growing the public sector are learning the wrong lessons from Sweden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a capitalist haven, yet, but there&#8217;s a reason Sweden didn&#8217;t fail before Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States becomes more socialistic, the grandaddy of socialist nations, Sweden, owes its ongoing success to a gradual rejection of socialism: In The Capitalist Welfare State, Lund University economist Andreas Bergh explains how Sweden has managed to increase economic productivity despite its large public sector. Bergh says that despite popular mythology, Sweden is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11042,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions\/11042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}