The Entrepreneurial State: how the "free market" stalls without government-funded innovation

[anon27554371]

Ouch, yeah, this is something some of my own (elder) family members have said. I remember my face burning with shame and embarrassment (I am multi-racial).

And then, I heard something very similar to this:

@Medievalist

perfectly all right for Europeans Chinese to take the land from the Indians, Africans because “they weren’t doing anything with it.”

… from one of my cousins (closer to my age). Double ouch. I expect better from my own generation.

[teknocholer]

@Boundegar

…really, who even remembers the twentieth century?

I remember it very well. It’s the twenty-first that I’m a little hazy on.

[anon15383236]

Seems ironic that this book is published by a press named Anthem.

[longbelly]

For further case studies and empirical evidence see Ha-Joon Chang.

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism