...agricultural freedom. We need to remind ourselves that under our system we have greater opportunity and a higher standard of living than any other people in the world. Today's prices being paid the fanner for his produce do not paint a very rosy picture of prosperity...

...economy was sophisticated and productive beyond comparison with any other region and gave the Chinese a higher standard of living than any other people in the world. But by 1800, beneath a facade of prosperity and self-satisfied conservatism, domestic economic problems...