Øystein Steiro - Den abnorme Norske staten

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Today I thought I would talk about the relationship between state and market, about the state's dominant role in Norway and some of the many absurd paradoxes in the Norwegian economy. The Norwegian state is abnormal. It is abnormally large. It is much larger than in any other Western country. It is large where it should be small. And

where it should be large and present, it is often as good as absent. The Norwegian economy is full of strange and dysfunctional paradoxes. Households feel it firsthand, but most are probably not fully aware that the Norwegian model with a state-heavy, oil-fueled social democratic welfare capitalism and poorly functioning markets represents an extreme extreme

among OECD countries. An extreme that can hardly be said to have been a success. The most obvious harmful effects are covered up with oil money and transfers. The biggest paradoxes are swept under the rug by politicians who are not interested in being seen and followed in the cards and by a press corps that is more concerned with nurturing

its symbiotic relationship with the political class than acting as guardians of power. In this podcast we will take a closer look at this. We will take a closer look at matters that you won't find in the narrative-driven press and that you won't find in the established coma. It has to do with the management of our

public funds, our tax money, and our future. And that's why it's important. My name is Øystein Steiro. I have worked in both the public and private sectors. I have a background in the foreign service and Norwegian and international business. I have seen Norway and Norwegian politics and economics both from the outside and from the