In Jamaica, the Tourists Party On behind High Walls and Locked Gates

Tags: Democracy, Socialism

12/14/2022 Douglas French

High time preferences also mean high times in a party atmosphere. When Jamaica embraced socialism many decades ago, it wasn’t supposed to come to this.

Original Article: “In Jamaica, the Tourists Party On behind High Walls and Locked Gates”

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