Anthony Santiago’s Reviews > The Norwegian Exception?: Norway's Liberal Democracy Since 1814 > Status Update

Your Civita is showing. This chapter has been the most blatantly political so far. I'm sure compromise and collaboration played a role in the Fellesprogrammet tempering its recommendations for a planned economy, but how---seriously, HOW---can the author's not mention once the coercive pressures of Cold War politics instantiated by the Marshall Plan? It seems historically irresponsible, or misleading, not to mention this in service of a cozy narrative about cooperation.

And then the latter half of the chapter is very, very liberal. Very Austrian school. Very Hayek. Vague, nebulous statistics were brought out to argue a Norwegian version of the local knowledge problem. It was vague and unconvincing.

As always, I did love the window into Norwegian culture, be it myths about everyone being 'born with skis' or the perhaps deindividuating Law of Jante.