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Singapore is weird, quite autocratic and not that corrupt. Maybe the city state should be seen as a corporation? I can't give three more counter examples, can
by berntb 14y ago
Singapore is weird, quite autocratic and not that corrupt. Maybe the city state should be seen as a corporation?
I can't give three more counter examples, can you?
(I might add -- the problem with kings are that even if the present one is a genius, you don't know how crazy the next one will be...)
- eru 14y agoYour observation might be valid empirically without too many exceptions. (Thought there are corrupts democracies, too.) But it's rubbish as a definition.
- berntb 14y agoSee it as (a very simplified model in) game theory: What is the interest of some game players, given their positions on the board? Here is an interesting take: http://reason.com/archives/2006/03/01/why-poor-countries-are-poor http://reason.com/archives/2006/03/01/why-poor-countries-are...