[lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Jul 22 13:45:15 PDT 2003



>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>Nor can I understand how anyone can fail to distinguish between Lee
>>Kuan Yew's Singapore and Mao Zedong's China.
>
>Of course they're different, but what are the relative developmental
>prospects for a tiny city-state with a long history as a port and
>trading post and a gigantic, isolated, and mostly agrarian country?
>It's not like China could have woken up one morning and said, "Gosh,
>I think I'll become a hotbed of electronics and finance" and
>accomplish the task rather quickly.
>
>Doug

Ah. But the claimed similarity was that they were both "authoritarian" governments. To lump them both into the same basket is extroardinarily.



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