I really think people have just decided, correctly in my view, that these kinds of cross-border comparisons are useless. As the author amply demonstrates (altho

I really think people have just decided, correctly in my view, that these kinds of cross-border comparisons are useless. As the author amply demonstrates (although he doesn’t seem to be in on the joke), you can support literally any claim you want by just digging for the right stats, because there’s no robust way to identify what the counterfactual is.