Volume 30, Number 3 · March 3, 1983
From Infancy to Senility and Back
By Lester C. Thurow
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
by Mancur Olson
Yale University Press, 273 pp., $14.95
Despite a sprinkling of such disclaimers, Mancur Olson, an economist at the University of Maryland, wants to build a cathedral of universal ideas that will explain why countries decline economically. His problem is simple. None of the countries that have been world economic leaders has managed to stay ahead forever. Why?
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