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The Nordic Model

Free markets, but also generous safety nets. Booming innovation, but with near-crippling tax burdens. More billionaires per capita than Lady Capitalism herself, but some of the most generous paid-leave provisions on the planet. At first glance, the economic models that the Nordic countries have established for themselves seem paradoxical, and yet, they work.