Certainly, Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It
Right-and How We Can, by George Lakey, is informative. The title makes me cringe. It is designed to sell books, and gives the
work less gravitas. But this is a piddling
critique that tells more about me than the book.
Lakey’s work is excellent if you know nothing about the how Scandinavian
economics and politics work, and are curious.
We often hear some version of ‘why can’t we be more like…’ Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, or Iceland, in some area of economic or political life. This book shows why.
Yet we come back to the title again. Lakey explains that these countries have only
recently become the paragon of X,Y, and Z in the post-war years. They worked for their greater equality in the
last seventy years. So what does this
have to do with Vikings?
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