And how much has maturity changed this naïve, romantic idea of changing the world with love.

You know, it is like that silly theory that claims that it was just the Latin language there, then it gave birth to all the other languages.

There is an unnerving similarity between many economists naive premise of a perfectly rational market and the dialectical materialism of scientific socialism.

In his naiveté, he joined the Communist party in whose program he saw the hope of change.

Chinese audiences are as fed up with the glowing encomiums broadcast by CCTV as they are with the simplistic, context free reporting of Western media.

So far, the burden sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.

Alternative sources of energy have been hyped by corporate lobbyists and a credulous media to appear far more ready for widespread use than they really are.

So why the high alarm about European appeasement, especially among the neo conservatives? Why the easy equation of Islamism with Nazism?

They taught me how to look and see, and they did not do the incredibly stupid thing of saying to a child, Of all these things we already make you, which do you like best? which gives you zero answers that are usable.

As Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch have shown, the world s poorest countries are not characterized by naive trust in capitalism, but by utter distrust, which leads to heavy government intervention and regulation of business. Under such conditions, capitalism does not thrive and economies remain poor.