From: Thomas McCabe (pphysics141@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2007 - 20:45:37 MST
On Nov 25, 2007 10:28 PM, Rolf Nelson <rolf.h.d.nelson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > 1) Gov. could be fine today, but devolve into tyranny tomorrow. This
> > happens frequently in historical terms.
> "No democracy ever, including the period before World War II, fell in a
> country with a per capita income higher than that of Argentina in 1975,
> $6,055." -Przeworski, Democracy and Development, 2000
>
> -Rolf
>
>
This is not a fair comparison. Even adjusted for inflation, per capita
GDP has grown enormously since WWII, by a factor of five or more in
some countries.
- Tom
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