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Mar 25, 2009
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North Korea: leader in entrepreneurship! It sounds an unlikely tale that this closed, Stalinist, xenophobic, military-dominated nation should harbor some of the world's most entrepreneurial people.

Yet that is the essential and very serious implication of a new book by South Korean economist Lim Soo-Ho, "The Rise of Markets Within a Planned Economy" to b…

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