Tag: economic opportunity precedes democracy

If You Can’t Have Bread, At Least Have a Circus

Feb 14, 2006

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by

mwkruse

in Asia, Economic Development, International Affairs, Public Policy

If You Can't Have Bread, At Least Have a Circus is an article in TCS Daily that shows how many of the problems in the Middle East are economic, not political. The author, Peter Schaefer, basically makes the case that economic opportunity precedes democracy. I have become persuaded of this view over the years. He…