Comments on: Couldn’t agree more Dani – again!

By: observa

observa — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:30:42 +0000

Of course we Anglo Saxons were pretty tribal once upon a time and it’s interesting to speculate as to what makes a tribe develop from the mindset of ‘my tribe right or wrong’ to the mindset of ‘hey that other tribe has something to offer our tribe’ and hence the path to overall development. You mentioned the biggest modern tribe of all in China and clearly they’re going through the process of changing that mindset now. Mind boggling really. The size of the tribe doesn’t seem to matter, nor the place or time.

By: observa

observa — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:02:23 +0000

The answers suggest multifactorial. Is it average IQ? Asia cf Africa, Israel cf Arabia, White Australia cf Black Australia? Is it tribalism? Does tribalism actually foster low IQ on average and resulting poor outcomes? Can the shortcomings of tribalism be overridden producing better outcomes overall? eg Rhodesia cf Zimbabwe. Still, we’d better not ask these questions because we really don’t want particular answers, as they get in the way of clarity.

By: Francis Xavier Holden

Francis Xavier Holden — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:42:47 +0000

I certainly wouldn't advise them to "Close Up The Honky Tonks"

By: Francis Xavier Holden

Francis Xavier Holden — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:41:17 +0000

Talking about Bakersfield. I just bought "Dwight Sings Buck" . Ain't much wrong with the Bakersfield Sound that I can offer advice on.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:17:16 +0000

That was a good piece with some great lines

“In my book, there are lots of $100 bills left lying on the pavement. The purpose of political entrepreneurs is to pick them up, and that of economists to point out where they are.”

Yowsah!

but he could have gone further in pointing out the growing gap between political economy as applied to nation states who are all part of a globalised economy to one extent or another and so often find their centralised macro levers constrained and the rise of regions and city-states that can better work around and with these macro issues to harness local strengths in a way beyond how national economic doctrines and regimes are applied. Shanghai, Milan and LA probably have more in common with eachother thes days than they do with Gui Zhou province,Palermo or Bakersfield.