
The Grim Truth About the “Swedish Model”
Apr 17, 2020 explains why the country adopted a lethally misguided approach to COVID-19, resulting in a high death toll.
Hans Bergstrom, a former editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s leading daily newspaper, is a professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Apr 17, 2020 explains why the country adopted a lethally misguided approach to COVID-19, resulting in a high death toll.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.