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Re: The Limits To Growth
Mike Asher (masher@tusc.net) wrote:
: Yuri Kuchinsky <yuku@io.org> wrote:
: > 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).
That's because they were ruled by the British, my friend, and are tiny
trading and banking enclaves. Not typical of the "tigers".
Yuri.
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