Colleagues:  
  
        It is interesting to see that the academy still debating   
whether the town leads the country or the country the town in the   
process of economic advance.  We are still considering the   
difference between Russian and Chinese comunist doctrine, and   
whether A. Smith was right about the town and the country.    
Further, one would expect, and it has often been asserted with   
evidence, that where an unequal distribution of wealth is associated   
with relatively large investment in development, egalitarianism is   
inconsistent with economic growth.  But this too is an "old   
chestnut".  
  
        Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose.  
  
Robin Neill