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Having just visited Korea, I can tell you, this article by Hank Hyena is right on the money. Korea is a major rising star. It is wired, educated, and those folks work hard:
In 1960, SK was a famished pauper with a per capita annual income of $100. Since then, “The Miracle on the [...]
This is all very confusing. Alex Tabarrok tries to clarify:
It is true that capitalism was named by its enemies. Thus, it’s interesting to note that a socialist is someone who believes in socialism, a communist someone who believes in communism but a capitalist is someone with capital.
It’s also true that capitalism is [...]
Tyler Cowen and Bryan Caplan both write about how good this past decade was. I’m inclined to agree. Bryan takes the long view, comparing the naughts to the rest of the century, which happened to have world wars and/or the Soviet Union. My favorite sentence from either of them:
It might be pleasant [...]
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