Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> No.
>
> Britain and Canada are outliers in their regression. Think of
> Malaysia, or China, if you want a typical country in which the
> government has a large media share.
>
> The government media-inferior health and the government
> media-inferior education correlations made me think of a possible
> tie-in with Sen's arguments about famines, publicity, and democracy...
What makes Britain, Canada, France, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and
Singapore 'outliers' and China and Malaysia 'inliers', ferchrissakes?
And I thought Sen's point was that where there was democracy there was less
chance of famines, the latter having more to do with the nature of local
institutional power relations than with natural scarcity. How does a media
duopoly predict famine, ferchrissakes?
What am I missing?
Completely bemused,
Rob.
