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Both these countries are up to their necks in things that are supposed to hamper economic development - heavy protectionism, discrimination against foreign investors, weak protection of property rights, monopolies, lack of democracy, corruption, lack of meritocracy, and so on. You would think that they are both headed for developmental disasters. But think again. 

作者看来，今天的中国和1880年左右的美国有诸多相似点，都违反自由市场的原则，但两国经济都高速增长。

"Dead presidents don't talk"一节最有趣。美钞上印的美国大佬们都是一水儿的贸易保护主义者(protectionist)。

$ 1 bill, George Washington, 在总统就职典礼上坚持穿美式服装 (he insisted on wearing American clothes - specially woven in Connecticut for the occasion - rather than higher-quality British ones, 66) 


$ 5 bill, Abraham Lincoln, a well-known protectionist, who during the Civil War raised tariffs to their highest level ever. 

$10 bill, Alexander Hamilton,  "the architect of the modern American economic system."
As Treasury Secretary, he submitted to the Congress in 1789 the Report on the Subject of Manufactures. 希望政府保护“industires in their infancy." 

$ 100 bill, Benjamin Franklin insited on high tariff protection. 

即使两位自由市场的佑护者，也被作者挑出了毛病。
$ 2 bill, Thomas Jefferson and $ 20 bill Andrew Jackson, 'the patron saints of Ameican free-market capitalism'. 

Thomas Jefferson argued strongly aginst patents (67).
Jackson was notoriously anti-foreign (68). 1836年，他下令取消了Bank of the USA 的执照，因为担心国外投资者占的份额太多（30%).
 
作者讥讽美国的伪善，说美国对发展中国家的态度是 "Do as I say, not as I did."