Amsterdam: The Bicycling Capitol of Europe

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.

As I said before it is too hard to explain in such a word limit. I dont think US is the worst nation, it hardly compares to Iran, of course it isnt. What I am saying is that smart people and countries learn from their mistakes (by the way your profile says your Canadian??) .

The freedom given to banks is partly responsible for the GFC. The second thing is, US GOVT defecit has boosted the economy rather than held it back, so that helps. your an economics student look into post keynsianism.

As far as Canada, I live in Canada, they got all this health system, and social security benefits, but at the end of the day, CANADIANS ARE JUST LAZY, less ambitious, because of the same benefits that Canadian government ensures for its citizens. Financial crisis was a disaster, so far we know the banks were not properly regulated, but many experts still cannot describe the situation, there was a lot of 'unexpected things . ' banks did not behave rationally, "against market theory".

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.

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.

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.