Is There a Trade of Between Political Rights and Economic Growth?

Sot: I was potentially invisaging that china could represent a sort of model or some sort of ideal. And i think if, as you reconize, the west increasingly oligarchical, and the degree of collective control offered to the ordinary citizenm is diminishing,. That then china's fast growth comes to represent something. It's not exactly the shining city on a hill, but the better of the two alternatives. But i wonder if you still would disagree with that, with that vision? Ork: Yes, i would agree. You're just saying whether that trade off does exist or not.