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To: jbe who wrote (8608)	10/20/1998 9:00:00 AM
From: George Coyne	Respond to of 13994

jbe, Your reply was as interesting and as perceptive as I expected. I do have some additional thoughts. To take nothing from your analysis, and not to excuse the errors of the Russian approach, didn't both the Chinese and the Russians simply start with what they each perceived was the closest thing in their society that resembled capitalism? For the Chinese, there had always been a form of mini-capitalism, the family. It was a straight-forward idea to simply grow this concept. For the Russians, they could only see the gargantuan industries, analogous in many ways to those in America. It seemed logical to simply apply to them the profit motive. Families had no entrepreneurial history and were inured to "working for the company". Existing corruption in the state-run system became magnified. I hope they can make the transition. I think the Russians are a solid people. G. W.