Sunday, June 17, 2012
Really good antiwar article
If you're looking for good models of governance...Scott Sumner pointed out that the modern world has three, which barely resemble one another. Singapore, the nominally democratic single-party-rule state run by technocratic economists; Denmark, the uber-scandanavian egalitarian high-tax, high-social justice, low regulation high-liberal paradise. And Switzerland, the direct democracy, zero-central power state. This is about Switzerland.
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nice work
All the cool countries are tiny. I've come to believe that they must be exceptions by definition.
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Publication bias. You don't hear about tiny countries that aren't exceptions, or otherwise interesting in some way.
He didn't say that all tiny countries are cool.
There are more of them, so there will likely be more extreme cases of all the various kinds. Possibly, smaller countries can be more homogeneous, which is true of Denmark, but not of Switzerland or Singapore. Switzerland in particular is a result of something like a non-aggression pact between its different groups.
Interesting that you picked three countries with such high average IQs.
Switzerland and Singapore also both active favor high IQs with their (very restrictive) immigration policies.
Model for good governance:
1) make sure to be in a small state with high-IQ people w/ concordant low time preference.
2) choose about any political system, so long as it is strong enough to control immigration.
3) have many laws or few, but restrict immigration to an assimilably small flow of people of equal or higher IQ than natives
4) Profit!
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Officially Denmark is a paradise. All official statistics prove that it is, and no one in Denmark, not a single person, will disagree, yet somehow, strangely, ten percent of those that die in hospital are involuntarily euthanized, quietly murdered by the state, rather than merely being allowed to die.
Which casts doubt on all that official information and 100% consensus belief.
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That is an interesting article. Remarkable also that many of the things it describes strike me as familiar - similar to the United States prior to the Civil War.
And, in regards to Foseti's comment, before massive immigration from outside of Britain or Germany.
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James A. Donald seems to be confusing Denmark with The Netherlands (a.k.a. Holland), or was this the wrong link ? I know that the multiplicity of small European soveriegn states get a bit confusing to some in the USA (I am presuming James is in the USA) but they are very different. I have no knowledge either way what the equivalent policies in Denmark are. My only connection with Denmark is that my sister in law is of Danish desent.
Patrick (in the UK)
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