Awesome healthcare, equal opportunity, great childcare benefits, and let's face it, good looking people. Is it something in the water? Have they created a utopia? Or is it a nightmare of a welfare state? Social Democracy and Socialism - does Bernie Sanders have it right - should the US be modeled after Nordic countries? Nordic countries seem to have a lot of great things in common, but what has made them so successful as a people? The philosophy or the culture? The author, Nima Sanandaji dives in for a closer look, suggesting that their success, even their long life spans might not be attributed to their political party at all.

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