[quote=FlyerInHi]
China is good example. They have achieved remarkable economic growth in the last 30 years. Many of their top government managers are technocrats with PhDs.[/quote]

Well it’s easy to manage growth if you have absolute power telling the majority of other people what they have to do…provided the folks holding onto absolute power have their head screwed on the right direction.

For example, if you need to build a high speed rail system, it’s easier if you have absolute power to do whatever you want… You can simply tell people that live on the land where you want to construct a high speed rail to move, not compensate them well for it, not worry about the environmentalists, and finish it really quickly without much pushback from anyone else that might cause objections…