Re: OT: why do countries become democracies?

"Richard Harter" <cri@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4a15724e.383899937@text.

You might take a look at "The bottom billion, Why the Poorest Countries
Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It" by Paul Collier. On his view,
possession of a valuable natural resource, e.g., oil, diamonds, lithium,
etc, works against development in impoverished economies. He goes into
considerable detail as to the hows and whys.

I'd be interested in reading this ... as long as it doesn't contain all the
usual mistakes compulsively made by the 'court historian' -- i.e. the writer
so pathetically in love with the power structures in his own society that
their determining role in the creation of ineradicable poverty and appalling
tyranny is *effortlessly airbrushed out of sight*. Such a person serves the
patriotic citizen's insatiable demand for self-praising history: moral
pygmies like 'wf3h' say: "Tell us the causes! We wish to know how this
happens! We want the truth! Just make sure that *nothing is our fault*...!"

W.

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