"This guy is just another reductionist sociologist trying to come up with that one...one...one...reason why an extremely complicated situation is perpetually botched."
He didn't strike me that way (I read the whole book, not just this chapter on Cameroon). Granted, the answer to "why are countries poor?" can never be one thing.
I think his point wasn't so much that the government was stealing but that the government created a system that reduced people's incentives to be productive.
He didn't strike me that way (I read the whole book, not just this chapter on Cameroon). Granted, the answer to "why are countries poor?" can never be one thing.
I think his point wasn't so much that the government was stealing but that the government created a system that reduced people's incentives to be productive.