By Nirmal P. Acharya
More than 30 years ago, after the Soviet Union collapsed the US became a beacon country for mankind. This nation of beacons is made up of American myths large and small.
At that time, we were told by various media, publications and “public intellectual elites” that the American-style “one person, one vote” electoral system was the ceiling of the human political system, the highest realm and we believed it then.
We were also told that the American-style liberal market economic system, with an invisible hand, promotes the spontaneous and infinite expansion of the “human cooperative order”. This is the ceiling of the human economic system, the highest realm, whi