Nobody Knows What Anything Costs

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Nobody Knows What Anything Costs

 


Letters to Castro: Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa Rejects Socialism

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8f_1309973541


Why Are More Than 35 Percent Swedes On Disability?

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Why Are More Than 35 Percent Swedes On Disability?

 


Sweden

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/business/worldbusiness/05iht-private.4807230.html?_r=1

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1607472


Socialized Medicine: Theory Versus Practice – Liberty Ink Journal

http://www.libertyinkjournal.com/1782-socialized-medicine-theory-versus-practice

 


Forging success: Soviet managers and accounting fraud, 1943–1962

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WHV-51N7RSB-1&_user=10&_coverDate=03/31/2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=679e79619c236d1bf20a4f51c879149d&searchtype=a


Commie Cargo Cult, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/commie_cargo_cu.html

 


THE ECONOMIC CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY

http://fee.org/from-the-archives/the-economic-conscience-of-our-country/


The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959-61

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16361#fromrss

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China’s Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered higher famine mortality rates, a surprising reversal of a typically negative correlation. A simple model based on historical institutional details shows that these patterns are consistent with the policy outcomes in a centrally planned economy in which the government is unable to easily collect and respond to new information in the presence of an aggregate shock to production.


Who Spends More on Social Welfare: the United States or Sweden?

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/who-spends-more-on-social-welfare-the-united-states-or-sweden/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+FreakonomicsBlog+(Freakonomics+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader


But It Works in Sweden…

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But It Works in Sweden…


Environmental Problems Under Socialism

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj12n2/cj12n2-2.pdf


Milton Friedman – Socialized Medicine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPADFNKDhGM&feature=related


Sweden, Medicare, and what really matters

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Sweden, Medicare, and what really matters


U.S. Versus Europe: No Winner

“As Mankiw notes, average income in the U.S. is around $47,000. Adjusting for purchasing power, in Britain and Germany it is around $36,000; in France, $34,000; in Italy, $31,000. Overall, U.S. living standards are more than one-third higher than in Europe.”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/wn_20100116_2302.php


Sach’s Nordic Model

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed112506a.cfm


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