Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:03:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: State Capitalism and Cuba


Points well-taken. I wouldn't expect our "state caps" to speak about Costa
Rica or Kerala, however. They have as much curiousity about third-world
development models as Woody Allen has toward rap music.

Louis


On Fri, 21 Jun 1996 ROSSERJB-AT-jmu.edu wrote:

> Louis:
>      Cuba's stats are better, but Costa Rica doesn't 
> look too bad on the social indicators front.  Lacking
> a military sure helps.
>      What about good old Kerala?  Much poorer than Cuba,
> but probably has the highest ratio of "social indicators"
> to official GDP of any place in the world.  Of course we
> have discussed Kerala earlier and I think that you and I
> are in accord on it, more or less.
>     BTW, I do think that Cuba is socialist, Kerala is very
> mixed, and Costa Rica is social democratic.
>     Bye, folks.
> Barkley Rosser
> 
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