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What problem . Well the book is about most americans tend to assume that markets and deo assume that markets and democracy naturally go together. And the thesis of the book is that in countries with what i call a marketdominant minority, markets and democracy are not mutually reinforcing because markets and democracy basically benefit different ethnic groups. So take indonesia as an illustration. Free market policies in the 1980s and 1990s led to a situation in which the country`s tiny, 3 percent chinese minority controlled an astounding 70 percent of the country`s private economy. The introduction of democracy in 1998 produced a violent backlash. Five thousand homes and shops of Ethnic Chinese were looted and burned. Two thousand people died. A hundred and fifty Chinese Women were raped. The wealthiest chinese left the country, along with some 40 billion to 100 billion of Ethnic Chinesecontrolled capital, plunging the country into a crisis from which it has not recovered. So in countr

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