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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Heaven Can't Wait | |
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| Two American empires, one presiding after World War II, onepresiding from 1980 to the present, gave rise to dramatically different growth rates in the developing world�a Golden Age and a Dark Age. | |
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| Where the Sun Never Sets, and Wages Never Rise | |
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| Prewar colonial empires are lauded for their spread of civilization, but manufacturing experience was acquired by only a dozen late developers, mainly in Japan's orbit. | |
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| Trading Earth for Heaven | |
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| In the First American Empire, developing countries were allowed to follow their own development paths, as long as they stayed clear of communism. | |
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| Angel Dust | |
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| Foreign aid failed as a lever of growth because it was �tied� ... it was corrupt ... and it was ill conceived... | |
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| Gift of the Gods | |
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| The fathers of Third World independence understood somebig things, about the �imperialism of free trade� andpopular mass support for decent jobs | |
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| They devised original policies to promote the substitution of imports for domestic production. | |
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| The Light of the Moon | |
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| The experimental policies that were responsible for bringing most of the developing world into the modern age were grounded in �performance standards,� a set of norms and institutions that increased the efficiency of state intervention. | |
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| Dien Bien Phu: Knowledge Is Eternal | |
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| The First American Empire perished in Vietnam because it lacked the information, know-how, and experimentation in which savvy developing countries specialized. | |
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| To Hell in a Straw Basket | |
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| War, oil, Japanese competition, and an expansionary Wall Street brought the Second American Empire to power, with its unshakable faith in free markets | |
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| America's Fatwas | |
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| Ideas about development changed from innovative to ideological; a �Washington consensus� determined what developing countries could and couldn't do | |
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| Only Asia went its own way and took the world by surprise | |
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| The Devil Take the Hindmost | |
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| Gaps in income between and within countries widened | |
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| Equal income distribution became recognized as one of the most important factors behind development, but laissez-faire was powerless to help | |
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| Great Balls of Fire | |
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| Great Balls of Fire emerged�China, India, and other awakening giants. If the giants prosper, the Second American Empire will no longer enjoy absolute power | |
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| Can it adjust? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |