and no doom

its talking about institutional implementations

by productivity here they are referring to total factor productivity which is a measure of efficiency

but the 2nd paragraph states that that decoupling is not a sufficient explanation for what happened

A primary determinant in GDP

basically shit started with the decoupling

which the journal acknowledges

and then soviets made it even worse

and was their primary point for mentioning it

jesus man

this is sad

The article says: decoupling bad, soviet rule also bad

lol

the point in mentioning it was to say that it was the primary cause of the slowdown in growth in the 40's as opposed to the change in capital stock caused by soviet reparations

Before we get into broader issues

acknowledge they started out with advantage

you keep moving goalpost and denying until your face turns red

i'm not moving goalposts lmao

i never said that east germany didn't start out with an advantage in total factor productivity

tfp is not a good proxy for gdp per capita

The journal mentioned it is . Ican show you a host of other sources discussing TFP as being primary determinant

show me otherwise

fvcking syria and mexico have some of the highest tfp measures in the world

source ?

Y'all arguing like it's *unusual* for a nation with a healthy industrial base to degrade over time under socialism. That's like half the history of socialism. The other half is places that didn't have an industrial base.....

Its june trying to make that argument

that somehow starting from same place

having 50 years to make progress

and ending up 30 percent of the gdp

is somehow normal

http://economics.emory.edu/home/documents/workingpapers/islam_99_12_paper.pdf

"starting from same place"

again you haven't demonstrated this

Ending up at 30% after 50 years sounds about right. Look at Venezuela's decline in a much shorter period. Fairly normal socialist productivity....

1988

moron

read your own damn graphs

what about 1988

do you think syria, mexico, and brazil were some of the richest countries in the world in 1988?

well first you are using unbelievably outdated stats

why does the date matter