Those policies were both very expensive and caused a slowdown in economic growth. Sweden has rolled many of them back recently.
https://mises.org/library/how-modern-sweden-profits-success-...
https://mises.org/library/how-modern-sweden-profits-success-...
The city is a buzzing growth center, as wealthy on the surface as San Francisco, but without any of the obvious problems with "homelessness, the mentally ill, the dirtiness & shabbiness of the city" (which the grandparent poster wanted to blame on liberal government).
You make it sound like Sweden in the '80s was a pseudo-Cuba. That was never the case.
"The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, teaches the scholarship of Austrian economics, freedom, and peace... Accordingly, we seek a profound and radical shift in the intellectual climate: away from statism and toward a private property order."
That's a bold assumption to make.
Facts are objective by definition, but their interpretation it's often not.
The moment you state your objective if promote free market economics it's clear that you will give an interpretation of facts that goes towards validating that view.
You can promote your views this way, but cannot expect people not to take a critical view of them.
Just read anyhting from Paul Krugman on the NYT, and you will see equally partial interpretations of facts that come to very different conclusions.
No problem in promoting your views, just not expect people to take them at face value, or as an "impartial examination of facts", when they are not.
Of course not. But no one asked you to take the views of the Mises Institute at face value. It appeared to me that you were implying they were biased, meaning not credible, based on the fact that they have endorsed free market economics since the 1950s. Which is an assumption that a group that regularly endorses a particular school of economic thought is biased toward that school of thought for reasons other than sound and impartial economic analysis.
If I was misreading what you were implying, then I of course take my previous comments back.