The dissident Russian writer A. Amalrik has written:

The Russian people . . . have . . . one idea that appears positive: the idea of justice. . . . In practice, “justice”

involves the desire that “nobody should live better than I do.” . . . The idea of justice is motivated by hatred of everything that is outstanding, which we make no effort to imitate but, on the contrary, try to bring down to our level, by hatred of any sense of initiative, of any higher or more dynamic way of life than the life we live ourselves.

What implications would such a worldview have for the economy?