Recommended reading

• Sweden: Tino Sanandaji says the country has a moderate tax burden, Dan Mitchell hails its economic reforms and Odd Eiken describes its school voucher program.

• Check out this graphic illustration of the folly of urban renewal, a classic example of centralized government planning. Note that one of the buildings towards the top of the last picture is the ghastly headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

• Mark Perry has interesting posts on occupational licensing gone wild and the sugar cartel, which has hijacked government policy to its own ends. 

• The New York Times details the frustrations of a businessman simply trying to brew some beer in Greece. This illustrates not only the problems with that country, but why the answer to so many of our economic problems are rooted in microeconomics rather than macro-based initiatives. 

• David Boaz highlights an environmental civil war in the leftist bastion of Takoma Park, MD.