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

[Brad DeLong]

>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.