I believe that even quite recently (in the last year or two) China was found
to be inflating its growth estimates significantly, and I have some
economically minded Indian friends who claim Indian estimates are also
intentionally inflated. I believe at the collapse of the Soviet Union it was
found
In preparing a lecture about socialist economies, I have come across the
claim that socialist nations had decent life expectancies. How can that
be? We know that:
(a) there have been episodes of mass starvation in the largest
socialist nations (USSR, China)
(b) socialist
