OT Re: SC - Re: Sugar Questions

[Philip & Susan Troy]

LYN M PARKINSON wrote:

> >Middle>Ages sugar cane was being grown and processed on Cyprus,
> IIRC. Halving the distances involved might well tend to make more diverse
> products >available to the emerging middle class.
> >
> >Adamantius
> 
> Would we explain that as 'the treacle down theory'????

Yes, treacle-down economics was originally developed as a governmental
theory in India, while their neighbors in Burma developed the opposite
system still supported by some, the theory of "yaks and spend"
economics...

Adamantius, wondering if there's room under that rock... 
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Phil & Susan Troy
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