Hey, I know what I'll do: I'll just warm up my earlier point: how come those pretty "socialist" states like Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands outperform (on pretty much every metric) more economically permissive countries like the US?
CH is one of the most decentralized nations on Earth and in no-wise comparable to the others. It is extremely "economically permissive".
What do you consider to be less economically permissive about SW or NL? There is no minimum wage, for example, in Sweden. Both are historical mercantile powerhouses.
Perhaps you aver to tax rates? By that criterion China should be a great exemplar of the free market paradigm.
There are so many factors differentiating the nations of the Earth that factor analysis is, at least, very hard, on purely frequentist statistical grounds.
I definitely think the remarkable degree of cultural homogeneity in Scandinavian nations makes it much more feasible to operate a collective project there.
You can get a large majority on board without huge incentivization or massive application of force.
NL and Scandinavia are also supremely Protestant (cf. BJA).