ABSTRACT
The developing capitalist countries play the role of a sort of competitive fringe to the great collusive obigopoiy of the developed. In these countries typical families are of course poorer and run much greater risks of health and substantial income loss, are less caught up in externalities of national scope, and the income is less equally distributed. A notable feature of the communist is the attempt to mobilize the entire society for the tasks of modernization. This effort clearly is at least a partial success in many countries, and its degree of success probably varies inversely with the level of income. The world's twelve most prosperious countries—excluding Kuwait—are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Scandinavian countries, the Low Countries, West Germany and France. The Soviet Union possesses perhaps one-eighth of the telephones, still only about one-fourth of the televisions of the United States, and there is much less travel in the Soviet Union.
