Running Dogs Take Note: In praise of Mao's PE

[Chris Burford]

At 00:58 11/01/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Matt,
>
>I apologize.  A stupid flame on my part.  Sometimes a joke is just a joke, 
>and regardless I over-reacted.    I would defend the MZ period though, 
>warts and all, and all the more so against the received wisdom on things PRC.
>
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>Daniel F. Vukovich
>Dept. of English; The Unit for Criticism
>University of Illinois
>Urbana, IL 61801
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OK but can you explain the argument below? Too many negatives.

Can you concisely summarising the two contrasting perspectives?


>once you call into question the notion that per capita income is not 
>the best indicator of econo development (as the Wbank and other folk do), 
>then the historical record of MZ et al., appears more and more impressive.

Chris Burford

London