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To: carranza2 who wrote (22855)	9/21/2007 8:56:24 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219657

I used to think like Hamilton until I discovered hat what matters is the "set of circumstances". Given a "set of circumstances" mo vast territory, no string armed forces and lack of materials would propel a country into wealth. That would result on a lot of capital accumulation and that country would be pushing much above its weight: Forget about grey gold, think about grey market: HK, Singapore, Finland, Sweden, Austria. What they have in common? Selling -or being an entrepot- to closed and embargoed economies. HK to China, Finland, Austria and Sweden to former USSR. Singapore to the S. East Asian countries. Another set of circumstances is the demographic window. Once countries enter their demographic window, it opens opportunities that even lousy economic policies, a not top class work force can be developed into world beaters. Guys like Hamilton, who learned their stuff reading in a library, will never capture the whole matter nor the essence of the matter.