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188 • Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom Rubin, Paul H. (2002). Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom. Rutgers University Press. Rubin, Paul H. (2003). Folk economics. Southern Economic Journal, July, 70, (1): 157-171. Rubin, Paul H., and Chris Paul (1979). An evolutionary model of taste for risk. Economic Inquiry, 17 (4): 585-96. Shermer, Michael (2011). The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. Times Books. Sowell, Thomas (1990). Preferential Policies: An International Perspective. W. Morrow. Tatiana Zerjal, et al. (2003). The genetic legacy of the Mongols. American Journal of Human Genetics, March, 72 (3): 717-721. Vásquez, Ian and Tanja Štumberger (2012). An Index of Freedom in the World. In Fred McMahon (ed.), Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom (Fraser Institute): 55-112. Volokh, Alexander (1997). n guilty men. 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 173. , as of October 19, 2011. Zahavi, Amotz, and Avishag Zahavi (1997). The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin’s Puzzle. Oxford University Press. Fraser Institute ©2012 • www.fraserinstitute.org • www.freetheworld.com
Liberty in Comparative Perspective China, India, and the West Erich Weede * chapter eight Introduction Until about 200 years ago, most of mankind was desperately poor. Then the great transformation happened. Global population increased sevenfold, global production more than 60-fold, and manufacturing industry at least 75-fold (Goklany, 2007: 19, 41). During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Europe and its North American and Australasian daughter societies overtook the great Asian civilizations and overcame mass poverty (Collins, 1986; Jones, 1981; Landes, 1998; Maddison, 2001; North, 1990; North, Wallis, and Weingast, 2009; Weber, 1923/1981; Weede, 1996, 2000). Ferguson illustrates Western dominance before World War I in these terms: “In 1500 the future imperial powers of Europe accounted for about 10 percent of the world’s land surface and at most 16 percent of its population. By 1913, 11 Western empires controlled nearly threefifths of all territory and population and more than three-quarters (a staggering 79 percent) of global economic output. Average life expectancy in England was nearly twice what it was in India” (2011: 5). Japan was the first Asian country to experience catch-up growth. Since the 1960s, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea followed. Now, * Professor Dr. Erich Weede was born 1942 and taught sociology at the University of Bonn until his retirement in fall 2004. He earned academic degrees in psychology and political science. In 1982/83 he was president of the Peace Science Society (International), and in 1985/86 was vice-president of the International Studies Association. He has produced 11 books and more than 200 other publications in German or English. His topics include the causes and prevention of war, the rise and decline of nations, Asian civilizations, the invention of capitalism, the spread of economic freedom, economic growth, and income inequality. His books include Economic Development, Social Order and World Politics (Lynne Rienner, 1996) and The Balance of Power, Globalization, and the Capitalist Peace (for the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation, Liberal Verlag, 2005).. www.freetheworld.com • www.fraserinstitute.org • Fraser Institute ©2012
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