On 2003-07-07, Bryan Caplan uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Tyler Cowen:
>But I can't remember hearing anyone drawing the obvious lesson: Russia
>needs more inequality to persuade the brains to stay.
It doesn't. Just as you say, it needs "better inequality", which in this
case most likely means
The standard Soviet argument against free emigration was that it would
spark a "brain drain." Why? Obviously, because they were underpaying
their brains relative to the world market.
Since the collapse of the USSR and emigration restrictions, the standard
argument has been proven entirely rig
