{"id":5398,"date":"2016-11-30T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:27:00","slug":"good-book-viking-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-book-viking-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD Book: Viking Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an inspiring and hopeful book on economics and the possibilities for change?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Viking Economics<\/span>, by award-winning author and educator George Lakey, might be just what the doctor ordered&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too individualistic, or too . . . something.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Viking Economics<\/i>\u2014perhaps the most fun economics book you\u2019ve ever read\u2014George Lakey dispels these myths. He explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world\u2019s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how, if we can enact some of the changes the Scandinavians fought for surprisingly recently, we, too, can embrace equality in our economic policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vikingcover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5400 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vikingcover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"vikingcover\" width=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vikingcover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vikingcover.jpg 231w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/a>The book is not yet available at our local libraries, but you can check it out on Amazon:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1612195369\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1612195369&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=mlkweb&amp;linkId=2c382bb1b0f6adaf953aab1885702c29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=mlkweb&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1612195369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an inspiring and hopeful book on economics and the possibilities for change? Viking Economics, by award-winning author and educator George<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-book-viking-economics\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":5399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,11,28,10,9,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16818,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions\/16818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}