Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!bob From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: Libertarians in Space Message-ID: <209@pedsgd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 12:36:17 EDT Article-I.D.: pedsgd.209 Posted: Mon Jul 22 12:36:17 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 02:36:27 EDT References: <170@pedsgd.UUCP> <1634@dciem.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Organization: Perkin-Elmer, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 34 Summary: Organization : Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls NJ Keywords: In article <1634@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes: >>Some time ago, I posted a list of nations that had been split into >>socialist and non-socialist parts. The list included Viet-Nam (before >>the war ended) China, Korea, and Germany. In each case, the non-socialist >>side had the higher per-person GNP. If you have reliable malnutrition >>data for these countries, I'd love to see it. > >I merely gave as my opinion that in normal circumstances Communist >countries were less prone to allow their least fortunate people to >starve than were free-enterprise countries, and that Socialist countries >(meaning much of Western Europe over the last 40 years, and countries >with similar governments) were still less prone to do so. In case you >-- I tend to share Martin's opinion, but admit that it is not based on facts, or even statistics. I missed the refrenced posting on Per Capita GNP and would be interested to see it. However, I think this sort of statistic by itself tends to be misleading. Some sort of deviation factor need be included, otherwise a country in which 10% make $1000000/year while 90% make $1000/year tends to look pretty good. I personally would like to see statistics on median income, including value of government services. Of course, this is a much harder thing to compute. I suspect when you come right down to it, this is what seperates the socialist from the capitalists, socialists place higher value on high median income, capitalists prefer high mean income. > >Martin Taylor >{allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt >{uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt Bob Weiler.