RES: anti-globalization label

Alexandre Fenelon afenelon at zaz.com.br
Wed Apr 10 17:17:30 PDT 2002


-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de ChrisD(RJ) Enviada em: quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2002 12:09 Para: 'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com' Assunto: RE: anti-globalization label

In a post a second ago on this thread, I refered to GDP growth under Stalin's "build factories or I'll shoot you" economic policy.

The USSR in the years under Stalin's reign had an estimated GDP growth of 300% in 30 years (I'm going by stats cited in the Russian business magazine Kommersant), even taking into accountthe ravages caused to agriculture by forced collectivization, destruction of 40% of the USSR's productive capacity by the Nazis, and an additional shock brought about by moving from a wartime policy in 1945-1946.

Are there any historical parallels to this rate of growth?

Chris Doss The Russia Journal

-Post 1945 Japan? South Korea? Taiwan?

Alexandre Fenelon



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