Bernie Sanders has often praised Denmark and now CNN has visited Denmark to have a look at the country.
CNN’s Chris Moody interviewed me about my views of Denmark as Sanders’ dream society. See here.
Obviously there is a lot say about this topic and recently I wrote up some of my views on this on a Facebook update:
Bernie Sanders won in New Hampshire. Bernie loves Denmark – so do I for very natural reasons.
But when US citizens vote for Bernie they should know that Denmark is NOT an economic miracle. Rather the Danish economy has significantly UNDERPERFORMED the US economy since the early 1970s.
The graph below shows GDP/capita in Denmark as a share of GDP.
In the 1950 and 1960 Denmark was catching up to US living standards.
In this period it should be noted that the Danish economy more looked like what Ron Paul…
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