RE: What Made Norway Great?
January 14, 2018 at 5:01 am
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2018 at 5:11 am by Anomalocaris.)
(January 13, 2018 at 6:26 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Climate ?
Natural selection ??
An unearned wind fall in the form of enormous reserves oil and natural under the part of the North Sea that happen to be inside Norway’s exclusive economic zone? An unearned wind fall in the form of more hydroelectric energy than a sparsely populated nation of 5.2 million could ever use?
True, some other countries would have squandered any unearned natural resource windfall, or let a few wealthy tycoons pocket the profits. Norway did much better and made sure the entire citizenry partook in the fruit of the windfall. But the fact remains Norway owes its present prosperity to a large degree to these unearned natural resource windfalls. Prior to the discovery of oil and gas, Norway made only a middling living, but even the it was dependent upon natural resource Exploitation in the form of whaling and exporting hydroleelctric energy.
