On 8/8/07, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's all very mysterious. If genetics made India ripe for British
> takeover, because American workers changed parts on their machines so
> much faster than Indians or something, then why is India such a
> hotbed of capitalist growth today? Did the gene pool completely turn
> over in a couple of centuries, which is a microsecond in evolutionary
> time?

Cowan helpfully points out that "Shortages of quality labor, for
instance, are already holding back India in international
competition." Presumably the "quality labor" gene is still in short
supply in India and is being rapidly exhausted.
-raghu.

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