Scandinavia


The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
A Man Called Ove
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Summer Book
Norse Mythology
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Hunger
A Doll's House
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
Hvem sa hva? Kvinner, menn og språk by Helene UriThe Real Valkyrie by Nancy Marie BrownFactfulness by Hans RoslingOm muser og menn by Marta BreenLife 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Best Scandinavian Nonfiction
6 books — 2 voters
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Brothers Lionheart by Astrid LindgrenMio, My Son by Astrid LindgrenRonia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid LindgrenPancakes for Findus by Sven Nordqvist
Swedish Children's Books
85 books — 45 voters

Michael Booth
This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery.
michael booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

To summarise, the design of Nordic tax systems has over time created a ‘fiscal illusion’, whereby the public is not aware of the taxes they are paying. One can reflect on whether it is really in line with democratic principles to raise taxes in a way such that citizens are unaware of them. Interestingly, few proponents of introducing a Nordic model of high taxes in other countries stress that such a move would require hiding the true cost of taxation from the public.
Nima Sanandaji, Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism

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