> Absolutely speaking, sure. But e.g. the U.S. and U.K. have been
> *relatively* more sympathetic to these ideas for centuries.
> Prof. Bryan Caplan
I think my email got crunched, but if you are talking relative levels,
then some Latin American countries have semi-decen
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
>> Now Pete Boettke asked me if there are any peoples with the
>> opposite combination: bad personal culture, good political culture.
>> The best Prof. Bryan Caplan
>
>
> Note that insistence on free markets, limited gov't, democracy, etc.
> is a pretty recent phenomena
--- Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now Pete Boettke asked me if there are any peoples with the opposite
> combination: bad personal culture, good political culture.
In Hong Kong, the political culture supports economic freedom, and the
personal Chineses culture values the body parts of
> Now Pete Boettke asked me if there are any peoples with the opposite
> combination: bad personal culture, good political culture. The best
> Prof. Bryan Caplan
Note that insistence on free markets, limited gov't, democracy, etc. is a
pretty recent phenomena - so one
Most economists and political scientists who talk about "culture" annoy
me by lumping together two different things. The first is "political
culture" - cultural attitudes about which government policies are good,
efficient, etc. The second is "personal culture" - cultural attitudes
about work
