The Economist apparently thinks countries are outlined borders populated by fungible Homo Economicus. They assume being in america makes you think and act like

The Economist apparently thinks countries are outlined borders populated by fungible Homo Economicus. They assume being in america makes you think and act like an american, when in reality it’s the opposite: https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-transplant/excerpt/table-contents https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran... “Another influential paper showed that ancestral experience with cutting-edge technology, especially in the year 1500, was a strong predictor of modern prosperity, even stronger than the measures the Brown economists had created. And once again, the relationship between past and present success was vastly stronger once one adjusted for migration, once one noticed that peoples may well matter more than places.”