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Re: The Limits To Growth



Yuri Kuchinsky <yuku@io.org> wrote:
> 
> : What made South Korea prosperous was capitalism, not population
> : control. 
> 
> It is always amusing when Libertarians praise an extremely statist
> economic system such as the one in South Korea, or of the other "Tigers" 
> that are only recently becoming less statist. 
> 
> What is it, opportunism -- or plain ignorance?
> 

Two of those "tigers": Singapore and Hong Kong, are continually rated the
two most economically free countries in the world.  (The US ranks 3rd -
6th, depending on the survey).  

North and South Korea make for an excellent case study.  Both have the same
culture, and are very similar in resources and other areas.  Yet North
Korea, with perhaps the most tightly controlled economy in the world, is
starving, while a more populous South Korea prospers.

--
Mike Asher
masher@tusc.net

"Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work;
almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad
work."
- H. L. Mencken


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