The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
LOSERS^495 direction of openness. The code word is "adjustment"—surely a good thing. A more open market is a force for rationali ...
(^496) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS of mobilizing resources for specific projects, technique was generally backward and ove ...
LOSERS^497 oases of warmth and culture in tiny flats and rooms. Many more drowned disappointment and despair in vodka. Still, na ...
(^498) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS have said no? ) Withal, the task was apparendy botched: the core was not completely smo ...
LOSERS 499 Pretense and promises are vulnerable to truth and experience. When the dream vanished, when people came to know the d ...
(^500) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS possible. The lack of historical consciousness of their people gives the African leader ...
LOSERS^501 pies to new cereals, while new urban eating habits led to an increased demand for meat by those who could not afford ...
502 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS peasant" by demonstrating the possibilities of modern technology. To be sure, these peanut ...
LOSERS^503 British employes had enough money to buy the natives out of food, and the natives in turn got jobs with the project a ...
504 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS "strict obligation" to grow cotton from dawn to dusk, but complete freedom to sell it.^23 ...
LOSERS^505 and in those localities where foreign companies were extracting min eral wealth. All of these paid him tribute, and ...
506 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS marketing board, and the farmer bought off the swollen bureaucracy. On the record, then, B ...
LOSERS 507 African nations totaled $313 billion (almost 2.5 times total export in come), so the $25 billion could pay the inter ...
(^508) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS of the industrial product was exportable, and even in the captive domestic market, much ...
LOSERS^509 shipments. That may seem like little, but remember, two thirds of these oil revenues, as well as other export income, ...
(^510) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS few exemplary murders can discourage the rest and persuade them to leave. (Compare the ...
LOSERS^511 ready to make light of this volatility on the pretext that the certainty of inflation was a form of stability. This m ...
How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going? T he millennial record seems simple enough. From a world of great and litde empires and ...
HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? 513 man, between outside awareness and self-ignorance. Still, few people would prefer a ...
(^514) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS definition of modernity—should be seen as accidental or, to use the modish word, contin ...
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