{"id":21579,"date":"2020-02-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=71e0d4f3acd888851dd9e95fb15e3389"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:00:00","slug":"re-imagining-capitalism-with-anu-partanen-and-trevor-corson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/02\/11\/re-imagining-capitalism-with-anu-partanen-and-trevor-corson\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-imagining capitalism (with Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Contrary to popular belief, Nordic countries aren\u2019t actually socialist! No, friends, the Nords are capitalists\u2014but they pull it off much better than we do. To help re-imagine American capitalism, writers Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson join us this week all the way from Finland.\u00a0<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Anu Partanen is a journalist and the author of <em>The Nordic Theory of Everything<\/em>. The book debunks some of the most common myths about Nordic societies and discusses what the United States might be able to borrow from aspects of Nordic success in the twenty-first century. She has written for <em>The New York Times <\/em>and <em>The Atlantic.<\/em><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anupartanen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@anupartanen<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Trevor Corson is an award-winning author and editor. His articles and essays have appeared in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic<\/em>, and many more.\u00a0<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trevorcorson?lang=en\">@TrevorCorson<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Further reading:\u00a0<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>The Nordic Theory of Everything: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780062316547\">https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780062316547<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/07\/opinion\/sunday\/finland-socialism-capitalism.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/07\/opinion\/sunday\/finland-socialism-capitalism.html<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>What Americans Don\u2019t Get About Nordic Countries: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/03\/bernie-sanders-nordic-countries\/473385\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/03\/bernie-sanders-nordic-countries\/473385\/<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Capitalism Redefined: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracyjournal.org\/magazine\/31\/capitalism-redefined\/\">https:\/\/democracyjournal.org\/magazine\/31\/capitalism-redefined\/<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Safe, happy and free: does Finland have all the answers? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/12\/safe-happy-and-free-does-finland-have-all-the-answers\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/feb\/12\/safe-happy-and-free-does-finland-have-all-the-answers<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Make sure you check out Majority.FM\u2019s AM Quickie, the morning news podcast for progressives in the know: <a href=\"http:\/\/amquickie.com\/\">amquickie.com<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/\">http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/<\/a><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchforkEcon\">@PitchforkEcon<\/a><\/p><p>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pitchforkeconomics\/?hl=en\">@pitchforkeconomics<\/a><\/p><p>Nick\u2019s twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickhanauer?lang=en\">@NickHanauer<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Contrary to popular belief, Nordic countries aren\u2019t actually socialist! No, friends, the Nords are capitalists\u2014but they pull it off much better than we do. To help re-imagine American capitalism, writers Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson join us &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21580,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions\/21580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}