Norway Versus England Is No Contest Off the Pitch

Football pundits will exhaust the language speculating about the results of Saturday’s England vs. Norway World Cup match. Will England’s depth win the day? Or will the Viking superstar — the six-foot-five Erling Haaland, strong as a wrestler and swift as a sprinter — tilt it Norway’s way? It is also a good time for their less colorful colleagues, public policy pundits, to say a few words about another matchup: the Norwegian vs. the British economic models.