Amsterdam: The Bicycling Capitol of Europe

their isn't actually a real Dutch cuisine and the stuff about a bike safety test is nonsense, but great video

fuck Europe
fuck Christian

Great Dutch good? LOL. I'm an American living in Amsterdam. While I agree with everything else about this video, Dutchies have no clue about food. Oh... and it's pronounced "FEETSDAHK" (throaty soft K sound).

wish our country was more like that

Wow, I knew the bike theft rate was high, but not that high. I was lucky, 6 months and I never got my fietsen stolen.

I can make comments too.

See below posts, but another point is that getting people to ride a bicycle saves on health costs. By spending money on cycleways Denmark is saving money in the future. For every Kilometre travelled by bike rather than a car, the country saves around 80 US cents. As an economics student I thought you would appreciate that fact.

So spending on getting people to cycle should be seen as an investment. This is aside from the enormous social benefits.

As an economics student I hope your lecturer's give you a balanced presentation of the economic theories. JM Keynes said long ago that people and markets dont behave rationally. If you look historically at the economic theories prior to the great depression and now you will see we have repeated our mistakes. Economists expected people and markets to behave rationally then, and surprise surprise they didnt. By the way, the Keynesian days saw unemployment at record low levels.

The problem with market theory is that people dont behave rationally, as you have admitted to..

You will find that historically countries have had lower unemployment rates when they have had gvts that have asstd.

Going back to the point of this blog, I say that when you see a country with less crime, happier people, better action on the environment, it is smart to copy what they are doing not bag what they are doing.

Are americans not lazy for driving 500 metres to get a burger?

This is for Skillcentre

As an economics student you should get an understanding of this.

The mistake that Denmark could make, is to adopt the Euro as its currency. This step would lead to its own loss of some of its soverignty. As it has a floating soverign currency, Denmark could use a budget defecit to pump up its economy if it fell into a deep recession. If it adopts the Euro its currency hence does not become soverign and this limits its ability to fight any downturn.