>
>> The free market appears to require prerequisites, such as a
>> reasonably peaceful environment for trade.  Uniform and predictable
>> rules appear necessary for planned investment.  If you look around
>> the world in places where there is no peace, and/or no uniform and
>> predictable rules, the economy is almost always in the doldrums.
>>     
>
> There's no correlation between such uniformity & predictability and 
> States.  Frequently, the places with the least uniformity & 
> predictability have the strongest States, such as Democratic 
> Kampuchea.
>
> Tim Starr

This is the same Cambodia that gave us Pol Pot?  I'd more a fan of 
economic strength, which is what we were discussing, right?

Chris



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