<html> At 11:57 AM 4/9/2002 -0400, Tim wrote: <blockquote type=cite cite>I saw the first episode, and I have to say it was fascinating and made a lot of sense to my wife Kathy, a storyteller and nurse who always tells me she can't make head or tails of what I spend most of my time writing about. But in glancing through the book that serves as the basis for the series, I found some ghastly errors in the short section on Korea, a country I know a little bit about. So it made me wonder how good their research is/was for other countries - and who did their fact-checking.</blockquote> Tim, I haven't seen the book yet but I'm sure Korea is touted as a example of East Asian global success with its export oriented development policies.  Pakistan and Sri Lanka both had higher per capita GDPs than Korea in the 1950s, but the countries of South Asia went on to adopt dirigiste development policies that included import-substitution, interventionist policies in markets (labor and financial), and an excessive use of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which some say has plagued their economic development.  Of course there are so many other factors.  What sort of errors did you find?  Anyway, I've heard the episodes are great for undergraduate teaching -- we're using them in several different departments. Best, Diane </html>