Here is a nice review of how, perhaps, the west arose to such prosperous heights. If so, it seems exactly how China is doing it today.
In Europe, as trade and industry expanded, people discovered that "commerce thrives on freedom and runs away from constriction; normally the most prosperous cities were those that adopted the most liberal policies" (Ibid., 90). The "demonstration effect" that has been a constant element in European progress – and which could exist precisely because Europe was a decentralized system of competing jurisdictions – helped spread the liberal policies that brought prosperity to the towns that first ventured to experiment with them.
Under Maoism, free enterprise was terribly restricted. Today, China is closer to the anarchic (in the good sense) 1400s than say USA.
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In Europe, as trade and industry expanded, people discovered that "commerce thrives on freedom and runs away from constriction; normally the most prosperous cities were those that adopted the most liberal policies" (Ibid., 90). The "demonstration effect" that has been a constant element in European progress – and which could exist precisely because Europe was a decentralized system of competing jurisdictions – helped spread the liberal policies that brought prosperity to the towns that first ventured to experiment with them.
Under Maoism, free enterprise was terribly restricted. Today, China is closer to the anarchic (in the good sense) 1400s than say USA.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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