[ExI] national growth patterns (was: Re: The Dogs of Immortality)

[Damien Broderick]

At 02:51 PM 7/19/2008 -0700, Fred M wrote:

>On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 16:53 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>
> > I can't really see a pattern here. Why should stable, low-taxing,
> > pro-business, small Government Switzerland do so badly, for example?
> > Why should Ireland do so well? Why should Canada do better than the
> > US?
>
>... countries
>which are starting from a very low base can experience rapid growth
>percentages.

Obviously, and in some sense this applies to Ireland's artificial 
retardation until recently--but must we assume Switzerland is maxed 
out? And the US cf. Canada? If so, this bodes ill for any theory of 
accelerating growth from a high tech base.

Damien Broderick