Thu Nov 16 02:26:55 EST 2006
Mason Gaffney wrote:
> What is historical is that one Wang-an Shih, a finance minister in
> the Sung
> Dynasty about the time of the Norman conquest of England, successfully
> promoted taxation of land, a policy that succeeded in perpetuating the
> dynasty for another 200 years; and that Turgot, the Physiocrat,
> became known
> as the French Confucius (probably Taoist would be more accurate);
> and that
> George replicated most of Turgot's ideas (probably independently,
> with a
> boost from Mill); and that Dr. Sun read George when in Hawaii, and
> incorporated them as "right livelihood" in the San Min Chu I; and that
> Taiwan idolized Dr. Sun, long after his death, and incorporated
> many of his
> ideas in the land reform and tax reform policies, creating one of the
> "Tiger" economies.
>
WANG An-Shih (1021-1086) was a "prime minister" in Sung dynasty. In
fact Wang's reform did not last long.
I personally think the we in Taiwan only paid lip service to SUN Yat-
sen's Three People's Principle (San-Min-Chu-I). It is purely
political propaganda that Sun's ideas led to Taiwan's economic reform
and economic development.
Hsiang-Ke Chao