[ExI] national growth patterns (was: Re: The Dogs of Immortality)
Damien Broderick
thespike at satx.rr.com
Sat Jul 19 22:52:55 UTC 2008
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
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