urces worrying
about blacks. I don't have evidence for that though.
Mitch
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From: "Alypius Skinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2002 3:28 pm
Subject: Re: WWII Germany - Olson - American South
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> If I recall Mancur Olson suggests that one of the reasons that post WWII
> West Germany did so well is that all of Germany's special interest
> groups were destroyed.
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> I'm inclined to agree although I know that Germany had tremendous
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> [...] why did the South fare so poorly after the US Civil War
> [compared to Germany after 1945]?
One difference is that Dixie, unlike Germany, paid taxes to the Yankee
regime afterward.
--
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
You might try Gavin Wright's "Old South, New South" in which he argues
there were two labor markets that developed following 1861-1865: one in
the South and one in the rest of the country. The differences between
these labor markets led to the differences in development, according to
Wright.
Noe
If I recall Mancur Olson suggests that one of the reasons that post WWII
West Germany did so well is that all of Germany's special interest
groups were destroyed.
I'm inclined to agree although I know that Germany had tremendous
manufacturing ability even at the end of the war. However, why d
