Every citizen of Norway has the right to a wide variety of benefits such as paid vacation and sick leave, universal healthcare, and free higher education. But does Norway, with its wage controls, high taxes, and interventionist state, provide its citizens with less individual liberty than most Americans experience in the U.S.?
This lecture will offer a comparison of the welfare states of Scandinavia and the U.S., conceptions of Left and Right and Liberty, and the embrace of the Nordic path to individual liberty.
About the Speaker:
Marsdal is the founder of the union-sponsored think-tank Manifest Center for Societal Analysis and the digital platform Manifest Media. Over the last decade, Marsdal has devoted much of his efforts to a Freedom Project, comparing The Welfare States of Scandinavia and the United States of America. He currently hosts one of Norway’s leading politics podcasts.
