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What Does It Mean to Be a Rich Nation?

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What Does It Mean to Be a Rich Nation?
An aerial view of Mexico City, Mexico, on March 31, 2020. Hector Vivas/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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I’m sitting at the bar at a restaurant in the center of Mexico City, a country ranked 71 in the list of nations in GDP per capita. Most people in the United States would call it poor. And of course Americans are somehow under the impression that the place is dangerous, which, so far as I can tell, is a ridiculous claim and especially ironic given crime in the United States today.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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