Is Sweden really the socialist utopia that it is often portrayed as? Is it a socialist nightmare? It’s far away, it’s cold and for Americans, it’s a country surrounded by economic myths. Here’s the real story.

On this episode of Rise & Fall, you’ll hear commentary from Ayn Rand Institute in-house Swede and research associate Carl Svanberg, philosopher Ayn Rand and Don Watkins, director of education at the Center for Industrial Progress and former fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute.

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Content used in this episode:

• Carl Svanberg, 2016, The Yaron Brook Show: Is Sweden a Socialist Utopia? Memes and Myths
• Ayn Rand, 1976, The Moral Factor
• Onkar Ghate, 2014, The Debt Dialogues [Episode 4]: Onkar Ghate on the Morality of the Welfare State