The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? 515 recognize the possibility of accident and unreason, but these can in the long run o ...
(^516) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS logical disaster. We no longer have to worry about the exhaustion of this or that resou ...
HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? 517 close to the ego, injure identity and self-esteem. Coming from out siders, such an ...
(^518) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS dium of state employment. Or for equality in poverty. As the Russian joke has it, peasa ...
HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? 519 And what about contingency and mess? So many things to go wrong—war, revolution, na ...
(^520) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS hands."^13 Adam Smith worried that these place servers might consume the produce needed ...
HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? 521 poor countries.^14 Happiness to some, deprivation to others. This mix of good news ...
(^522) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS me, however. The present tendency to global industrial diffusion will entail, for the r ...
HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? 523 To be sure, the rich, industrial countries can defend themselves (ease but not elim ...
(^524) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS who accentuate the positive. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are ...
NOTES INTRODUCTION In "Illogic of Neo-Marxian Doctrine," p. 107. Thus Wilson, Rothschild, p. 102. I am relying here, with some ...
(^526) NOTES or less unconditionally egalitarian view of geography (no one is better off than anyone else, because no one should ...
NOTES^527 See Paul Harrison, "The Curse of the Tropics," p. 602. These variations make a difference. Cf. Sah, "Priorities," pp. ...
(^528) NOTES bureaucracy was dominant in almost all aspects of large-scale activity—administrative, military, religious, and eco ...
NOTES^529 Moses Abramovitz argues that a longer life span encourages investment in human capital and makes people readier to mo ...
530 NOTES James Barron, "He's the Explorer/Exploiter You Just Have to Love/Hate," New York Times, 12 October 1992, p. B7. See a ...
NOTES^531 bodies lying about and yet the defenders starved. But that might simply mean that can- nibalism had ritual aspects tha ...
(^532) NOTES ships of more than ten sails, big enough to carry a thousand men. The biggest, run- ning to about 450 feet, were la ...
NOTES^533 the demographic catastrophe by way of aggravating European guilt—as though it were not great enough already. Can it be ...
(^534) NOTES On bugs in the Caribbean, see Starkey, Economic Geography, p. 60; on animal pests, Watts, The West Indies, p. 195. ...
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