Most of us in the West now live in so-called mixed economies—free-market economies with central planning programs stacked atop them. It’s easy to mistake the redistributive gains generated by central planning with the underlying prosperity to be redistributed. But that distinction is both critical and true. There is a reason that while Bernie Sanders has called Denmark his ideal socialist country, the Danish prime minister told Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2015, “Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy. The Nordic model is an expanded welfare
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