Not at all. It's a topic that fascinates me. And you might well win me over. Still I don't think I was wrong to hope for a thumbnail sketch of an answer.
One more question. It strikes me that a comparison of the United States with Japan, which industrialized and liberalized (to a point) without much external immigration but with a wholesale importation of ideas, could be fascinating. Is that a part of what you do in your book?
by Oscar Chamberlain on April 13, 2006 at 4:28 PM