Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg – Why Is Everything Made In China? (VIDEO)

It seems like everything we buy is made in China these days. We import cheap goods, but we export good jobs. We should just produce everything we need locally and keep the factories and jobs at home. Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.



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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Do The Olympics Help Or Hurt Their Host's Economy?

The Olympics are, for the most part, a welcome two week distraction and one of the rare instances where the focus of the entire world is on one place at one time. The games give each country’s best and brightest the chance to prove they have what it takes to compete on a world stage. It gives the winningest athletes the chance to be recognized for feats the vast majority of us could never dream of achieving. However there is one place the Olympics falls short. Hosting the games does not bring the economic boon that is promised. Preparations by the host cities are now well in the tens of billions of dollars for facilities that go vastly unused after the games conclude. In this global age, it’s time to rethink how the Olympics are conducted without having to nearly bankrupt a host site.

The time where having a single host city hold the games is over. The cost to host the upcoming games in Rio has ballooned over budget to nearly $16 billion dollars. The costs to host the winter games two years ago in Sochi and 4 years ago in London came in around the same threshold. The buildings in Sochi are now largely abandoned and the economic benefits from the London games are still debated. Why are we holding on to this archaic structure that all the games must be held in the same locale? If London is a rare exception of having seen some benefit from being the host city, was there not a better way to invest $16 billion to see a more sizeable return?

The appeal of hosting the Olympics makes sense in theory. The eyes of the world are upon you to display your country. The money from tourism will boost the local economy. Maybe the substantial investment in infrastructure will spur a renaissance and pay off down the road. It all sounds appealing, but now that we have better ways to track people’s spending habits, it all goes out the window. In Beijing tourism dropped significantly in 2008 as travelers actually made it a point to avoid the city, as well as China altogether. It’s estimated that it will take 30 years to pay off the debt created by hosting those games. In London, 2004, around 90% of ticket sales were purchased by citizens of the U.K., meaning that spending was simply redistributed and not actually created. The money spent by Brits to go see the games is disposable income that would have stayed in the local economy whether the Olympics were being held in London or not. Those are the negatives of games that went well, now let’s take a look at this year.

Rio, a beautiful ocean side city on many travelers’ bucket list. It may be on fewer travelers’ lists after the next few weeks. One of the largest arguments for hosting the Olympics is that it’s essentially an advertisement to the world for your city. Well how’s that going to work out for Rio when every story is about its pollution, crime, and corruption? Social media posts from athletes have been overwhelmingly negative with some flat out refusing to participate. The other examples cited in this article at least generally cast their home country in a positive light and still failed to live up to the economic payoff promised. Now take those negatives and apply them to the fact that Rio is essentially showcasing what an undesirable place it is to be to the rest of the world. These Olympics could wind up setting the city and the entire country of Brazil back a decade, or even more.

So is there a solution? Yes. Is it perfect? No. Host sites should bid on individual events or packages of events for which they already have the infrastructure built. As cities emerge to compete on the global level, they can build the structures they choose to bid for the events they feel could be the most beneficial for constant use with the possibility of hosting in the future. This makes the event a true global spectacle with events happening all around the world all tied back to one overriding cause. This scenario also brings back in play the economic benefits of host sites. Without billions and billions of overhead to offset, the increase in spending may actually wind up paying off. If tourists are avoiding Olympic cities due to large crowds, maybe smaller groups of events would actually attract them. The largest problem to solve in this scenario is how to handle the opening and closing ceremonies, but it’s a problem that could more than likely be solved for less than the $16 billion venues are paying now to host the event.

The world is more connected than ever and the Olympic Committee needs to realize this and adapt accordingly. The citizens in some of these countries, this year in Brazil especially, are feeling abandoned when they live in poverty yet their government somehow finds more than $10 billion to build a stadium that will be used for three weeks. Maybe this year will be the tipping point. Maybe the pollution and the broken promises for Rio will be a wake-up call for organizers that the Olympics can be and have been a detriment more often than not for their hosts, but they have been historically resistant to change. Almost as resistant as the super bacteria in Brazil’s water are to antibiotics.




We’re Energy Hungry Monsters - Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg (VIDEO)

We’re energy hungry monsters. We’re thoughtless consumers and we waste way too much electricity. If we keep this up, the whole planet will suffer, and if developing countries copy us, it’s a disaster, right? Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.



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Monday, August 1, 2016

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Labor Unions Wreaking Havoc In This Modern Day Economy

by: Charles Santini


I just watched a labor union destroy my town. They didn’t break windows over scab workers or anything like that. They did however, dig in so hard and so ferociously on policies that would have made their employer, well soon to be former employer, uncompetitive in the industry. The irony of the situation is, that had a new manufacturing plant opened here, offering the wages and terms submitted to the union in these latest rounds of negotiations, they would have been welcomed with open arms. Not only is the current union not opening its arms, they are lopping them off to spite the rest of their body. The final negotiation deadline has now come and gone. The jobs and company will soon go with it, along with my city; all in the name of holding on to a labor structure, which once served a purpose, but is now the personification of stubbornness and greed.

I am not some distant bystander. I used to be in a union, two in fact, and I hated every second of it. One was so pointless and powerless, the fact that they collected union dues from me was borderline robbery. The second, was so powerful and over-reaching I constantly found myself in awe of the incompetence it encouraged from the employee base. I watched several fireable offenses (if theft from a co-worker is not one, then I don’t know what is) get swept under the rug as consequences from the administration received pushback from the union. The elected officials within the group protected their friends and the ones with the most seniority, and anyone who disagreed with that or a newer hire was left to fend for themselves. I gave two unions a chance. Two let me down, and another one is about to fail the 100,000 people who live in my city.

The manufacturing facility here once employed over 10,000 workers at its peak. That number is now down closer to 3,000. I am not proposing that the 70% drop is completely attributable to the union presence. Unfavorable state tax regulations as well as international competition contributed to a lot of it as jobs moved to India, while some stayed domestic and moved to Texas, which has more business friendly taxation. My blame of the unions comes in to how they responded to those challenges.

Running a business is not simple, but the philosophy behind it is. Find a product people want for a price they are willing to pay. If you are failing, adapt or die. If you cannot adapt in business, you are left with nothing. The philosophy for the union who remained here to represent the already depleted workforce, who have no idea how to run a business, read more along the lines of, dig in, ask for more, and don’t negotiate. Who was left to work at the plant after jobs began to leave? It certainly wasn’t the 20 or 30 somethings, looking to support a family. The union didn’t protect them. It wasn’t the most productive employees who wanted to see the plant succeed and worked the hardest. It was the union leaders and the people with the most time accumulated who made the most money. That is the only group of people a union protects and will ever protect.

Those who back unions and support unions only seem to look at it from one side, higher wages and better benefits; a short sighted and self-serving purpose. What they fail to grasp is how an economy, or a single business for that matter, functions. Let’s take a look at a theoretical scenario using the local facility here. Once work moved partially to India and Texas, as it did, let’s say the company was left with enough contracted business to justify one million dollars in labor expenses. (An absurdly low number, but easy to work with.) It would be the view of the union to protect only the top ten workers, if they made $100,000, putting a significant strain on the possible output of the facility. This is in contrast to supporting and protecting a hundred jobs paying $10,000 per year, effectively increasing the output and efficiency of the facility.


The numbers in this scenario are exaggerated, but the conclusions and the real world results are not. The manufacturing facility in my town will leave. It may have left at some point anyway, but it would have been a slower process giving displaced workers and the region time to adapt. The writing has been on the wall here for years, and the local union leaders are apparently the only ones who haven’t seen it. Now the process has simply been accelerated. They will leave in one foul swoop. I’m certain of it. One of the terms that unions like the throw out there in their press releases is ‘good faith’. Well, that’s a door that swings both ways. In business, if you don’t adapt, you die. There appears to be several funerals on the horizon.


Wednesday, July 27, 2016

We’re Selfish Consumers Who Waste Too Much Electricity - Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg (VIDEO)

In rich countries, we buy more, we travel anywhere, and the planet pays the price. It’s obvious that the richer we get, the more we damage the environment. Dead wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains. 



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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The Epidemic Of Misinformation

Does anyone else remember when a child placing their hands over their ears and exclaiming “La la la, I can’t hear you. La la la” was a sign of immaturity? From recent experiences it seems that lately, that type of behavior is not only tolerated, but encouraged on social media. We are entering election season, which means political posts are flooding many of our Facebook timelines and Twitter feeds. That wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but the posts, memes, and videos we are inundated with daily are missing one key feature. The majority are completely devoid of facts, and no one cares.

A recent study conducted by Columbia University and the National French Institute showed that 59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked. The study went on to find that not only are people blindly sharing the content, but their followers are blindly accepting it and allowing it to shape their political views, only reading the headline or quick summary. The posts are designed to attract gullible tech users into clicking the link, so that the “writers” can get paid for people seeing the ads placed on the page. The unintended consequence of these posts is the manipulation of the free market of ideas. We are all free to establish our own views and make our own decisions, but the well where the majority of Americans are going get the information to support those claims is poisoned with ‘clickbait’ and flat out lies.

No, these articles, if you can call them that, should not be banned. They should not be filtered from our feeds. They should be prominently displayed when we log on as examples of what happens when we hold ourselves to low standards. These posts get widely circulated amongst groups of people who walk around with blinders, wanting to hear no other sides of the story than the one they believe to be true. They are the same people who start arguments in the comments of one of your posts, but never reply when you present your side. They want none of it. They already have it figured out and no other opinions are valid.

We surround ourselves with the people who are most like us. It’s the natural social structure, but it is to our detriment when we shut ourselves off to ideas that challenge our own. Discussions about politics and religion that differ from your own, when done respectfully, only enrich one’s world view. They give us a better understanding of others, advance your personal self, and advance society. The perpetuation of one’s own views by only like-minded people breeds only ignorance. Have you ever seen an aerial view of North Korea at night, compared to its neighboring countries? That is what happens when opposing viewpoints are dismissed, only for the sake of being different.

If you’ve made it this far in the article, then you are clearly not the type of person I’m referring to. You click on an article and read it to the end, a rare feat in today’s world. So what’s the point? The point is; challenge people. Do not sit idly by while someone you know shares a link you know is clearly misinformation. Hold them to a higher standard. Force them to think. Clicking ‘like’ or ‘share’ can be performed by a chimpanzee. Typing a thought out response to someone fires up a different part of the brain, a part that is not on display very often anymore, it seems.







Trade is war, all against all, dog eat dog - Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg

Trade is war, all against all, dog eat dog. Just look at the size of the trade deficit. Or look at the iPhone. Even that is made in China. They’re killing us on trade. Dead wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains. 



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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Infant Mortality in Cuba is Famously Low, Even Lower than in the US - Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg (VIDEO)

Those who hope for a swift end to Cuban communism should be careful that they don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, literally. Infant mortality in Cuba is famously low, even lower than in the US. Dead Wrong. Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.


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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Pokémon GO Is The Perfect Example Of How America Is Giving Up On Itself

Get ready, because it’s coming soon. The newly created genre of augmented reality gaming is about to take over our phones, thanks to the success Pokémon GO, and the timing couldn’t be better. With the issue of excessive force by police juxtaposed against the racial tensions in our country, we are becoming more and more divided. Technology at our fingertips has allowed us to spout opinions; unfiltered by the effort of having to actually find a computer to post them. The anonymity offered by the internet allows us to say things and share opinions we would never have the guts to say in person, or possibly don’t even truly believe. It’s no wonder the nation is captivated by the prospect of living in an augmented reality.

I can’t justify or pretend to understand the appeal of the game itself, but I understand the mentality behind it. I’ve downloaded it (for research purposes). You walk around and collect little monsters to battle against other players. The reviews say that the game is full of bugs that need to be fixed immediately and that the app itself doesn’t even work that well. (I didn’t play long enough to find out.) Yet, its set records within days of its release and generates more than a million dollars a day. The price has been set by the American consumer to escape the world we’ve created and it’s only going to go up.

People don’t want to live in this reality anymore and they are willing to pay to escape. The online gaming industry is estimated to be a space worth more than $2 billion in the U.S. alone. Now, this isn’t necessarily an unhealthy thing. It can be a stress relief for some casual gamers and playing video games has been shown to stimulate certain cognitive functions. The problem, as we see it, is the seemingly direct recent correlation recently with social discontent and the popularity of games like Pokémon GO. It’s easier than ever to bury your nose in your phone and pretend like the rest of the world does not exist. This pacifism is the leading catalyst for the recent phenomenon of Pokémon.

It is so much easier to walk around your neighborhood looking for a Charmander (a specific Pokémon) than to face the reality of the upcoming election or take a stance on the Black Lives Matter movement. Why would anyone want to get involved in that when you can live in an augmented reality where your biggest problem is running out of Pokéballs? While the rest of the world argues and divides itself further, one can live in a world that they’ve created for themselves and have total control over. It sounds quite nice, really. There’s just one problem.

These issues, these problems creating a divide in our society, are not going away no matter how many Pokémon are caught or how many pieces of candy you can match together. Your phone battery only has so much life and people have to come up for air eventually. The more people miss going on in the real world, living in their created one; the more they are shocked with what they find when they look up, then the greater the motivation to charge up and download their next reality. The rest of us are left to pick up the pieces of this increasingly fractured society.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Child Labor and Globalization (VIDEO)

Free trade means that we buy the cheapest goods no matter how it is produced. Even if the goods are produced by the cheapest labor: children. You consume, and another child suffers. Luckily, that is Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.



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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Global Warming (VIDEO)

We are warming our planet with greenhouse gases, and this changes everything. We need drastic measures to dismantle industrial capitalism if we are to have any chance of surviving. Dead Wrong, and dangerous. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.




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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Mexican Immigrants (VIDEO)

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.



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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Nordic Gender Equality (VIDEO)

If the rest of the world wants women to rise to the top in business, you should do what we have done in Sweden and other Nordic countries with generous welfare states and egalitarian policies. Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains. 



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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Happiness (VIDEO)

Isn't there something wrong with our modern, individualistic world? We all want more choices and more wealth, but we get overwhelmed by all those choices, and after a certain point, more money doesn't contribute to our well-being. GDP cannot buy happiness. Dead wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.



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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Easy Money (VIDEO)

It’s been an awful financial crisis, but luckily central banks have saved our economy by flooding the markets with easy money. Now it won’t happen again.  I’m sorry to disappoint, but that’s probably Dead Wrong. In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.  



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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - GMOs (VIDEO)

Genetically modified organisms are Frankenfoods. This is a wild dangerous experiment that must be stopped, at once. At least we need labeling laws to warn people. Dead Wrong! In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.



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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

The latest release from Free To Choose Network is coming to your area soon!

What can a man with a plain name who lived over 200 years ago tell us about life today? Who was The Real Adam Smith? And why should we care?

In this two-hour, two-part documentary, FTCM Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explores Adam Smith's life, his ideas about morality and economics, and how the concepts he discussed in his books and lectures are still relevant today.

The Real Adam Smith – like all Free To Choose Media programs – will challenge viewers to form their own opinions on issues regarding personal, economic, and political freedoms, in keeping with our corporate purpose. Mark your calendars or set your DVRs today!

The Real Adam Smith is airing across the country. Please check your local listings and be sure to tell your friends not to miss this documentary.


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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Terrorism (VIDEO)

The terrorists strike again, and no one is safe. They don’t just threaten our lives, they threaten our societies. It’s time that we strike back, with all possible means, without restraint. Dead Wrong! In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.




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Monday, May 16, 2016

Reminder Alert - The Real Adam Smith Screening in Chicago is TONIGHT!!!

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We hope you can join us this evening for a sneak peek at the new documentary The Real Adam Smith, which will be airing on WTTW July 7 and 14.  The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about Adam Smith and the relevancy of his ideas today.

Speakers include:
• Kevin M. Murphy, the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

• Johan Norberg, Executive Editor and host of The Real Adam Smith, Senior Fellow at Cato Institute, Author, Columnist and Commentator.

• Alison Mangiero, Senior Director of the Manhattan Institute's Adam Smith Society.

• Jim Taylor, Director of The Real Adam Smith, and other documentaries for public television.

• Bob Chitester, President and CEO of Free To Choose Network and Executive Producer of The Real Adam Smith.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Minimum Wages (VIDEO)

For years, the demand for low skilled workers has declined so their wages have stagnated. Therefore we need higher minimum wages to help them. Dead Wrong! In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.



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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Calendar Alert for The Real Adam Smith Screening in Chicago - Monday, May 16th

 CALENDAR ALERT 



WHEN: Monday, May 16, 2016 | 6:30 p.m.

WHAT: Screening of the new public television documentary:  

The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg
How relevant can an 18th century moral philosopher and economist be in today’s world? If the man is Adam Smith, “the father of modern economics,” the answer is: very.  Just ask eBay, Whole Foods, Airbus and many other companies that have built businesses based on Smith’s ideas.
Those ideas, and the man behind them, are the subject of a new two-part documentary that will be airing on WTTW on July 7 (part 1) and July 14 (part 2) at 8:00 p.m.

Screening (30 minutes) is followed by discussion and Q&A with the film’s Executive Producer Bob Chitester, Director Jim Taylor, Executive Editor and Host Johan Norberg and Adam Smith Society Senior Director Alison Mangerio.


WHERE: International House | 1414 E 59th St. • Chicago


COST: Free







Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Tax Havens (VIDEO)

Massive leaks have revealed how the rich hide their money in tax havens. Therefore they expose the greed and immorality at the heart of global capitalism. Dead Wrong! In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.


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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Arkansas Residents: The Real Adam Smith is airing in your area on Monday (5/2/2016) - tune in!

The Real Adam Smith is airing in your area on Monday (5/2/2016) be sure to tune in!


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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Chicago Residents - Join Us for a Reception and Screening of The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg



  • Monday, May 16th at 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM in CDT

    International House 1414 E 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637


    Reception begins at 5:30 CDT and Screening begins at 6:30 CDT.

    How relevant can an 18th century moral philosopher and economist be in today’s world? If the man is Adam Smith, “the father of modern economics,” the answer is: very. Just ask eBay, Whole Foods, Airbus and many other companies that have built businesses based on Smith’s ideas. Join us in Chicago for a screening of "The Real Adam Smith" and discussion with the filmmakers afterward.

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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg - Trade Barriers (VIDEO)

It’s bizarre that we are now suddenly supposed to trade with vicious dictatorships like Cuba and Iran. Don’t we have a responsibility to try and undermine these despots, with trade sanctions? Dead Wrong! In this short video clip, Free To Choose Media Executive Editor and Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg explains.




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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Carmine's Staff Pick: The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg


Last month President Obama spoke to a group in Argentina and said the following:

"So often in the past there's been a sharp division between left and right, between capitalist and communist or socialist. And especially in the Americas, that's been a big debate, right? Oh, you know, you're a capitalist Yankee dog, and oh, you know, you're some crazy communist that's going to take away everybody's property … I mean, those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don't have to worry about whether it neatly fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory – you should just decide what works," said President Obama.

What works, eh? We don't need to look further than China to see a dramatic shift from socialism to free-market principles. See a great explanation of this shift in our newest film series, The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg.

This quote summarizes the point nicely:

"After Mao died, both the Chinese leaders and the Chinese people recognized that socialism didn't work … They gradually opened up the economy, allowed private sector to enter in one industry after another, and of course, once the private enterprises entered any sector, they quickly out-performed state enterprises." – Ning Wang, professor of economics at the Ronald Coase Institute and co-author of the book How China Became Capitalist. 

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