I think I understand your question. That's why I was referring to Professor McCloskey at the University of Illinois who has studied the origins of the market economy and what it has done.
I should have disclosed earlier that almost immediately after I became a professor in 1988, the Berlin Wall came down, and beginning in March of 1990, I started teaching in countries that were under the former communist system. I've taught in just about every form of communist country in the world. I've been teaching in China since 1997, and I've taught in Russia, Bulgaria, and so forth.
Although they had radical equality in these countries, they were all radically poor. I saw this up close, first-hand, and personally, because when the wall came down, they didn't suddenly become wealthy western countries. It took literally 10 years. Some of these countries still haven't transformed. I'm talking about countries such as Ukraine and Russia, which are still radically unequal and radically corrupt, whereas Poland transformed much more rapidly, so it has become much more successful.