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Trade and markets have nothing to do with it, a communist island will likely do as well as a free market islands and communist mainlands as well as free market mainlands, because it is abundant natural resources that creates wealth, not comparative advantage and trade.

Demographics of the Oligarchs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I have spent an hour on "Google" and have found many many reports in resent months of this problem not only in California but along the whole border, and even on both mainlands.

California Kidnapping Mexico Boarder 2008

We'll need nuclear power for getting ocean water free from salt and pumping it to mainlands, for example.

Mail Call: Print vs. e-Reading 2008

There are no amphibians, despite adequate water and the arid-adapted species present on the nearby African and Arabian mainlands.

Socotra Island xeric shrublands 2008

RANGEL: My response is when governor of Virgin Islands tells me and the I.S. agrees that they have a lesser degree of Statue of Liberty than we have on the mainlands, and they ask me to equalize it, you bet your life I did.

CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007 2007

The species of animals which inhabit the sea on opposite sides of the isthmus of Panama are wholly distinct8 the animals and plants which inhabit islands are commonly distinct from those of the neighbouring mainlands, and yet have a similarity of aspect.

Essays 2007

RANGEL: My response is when governor of Virgin Islands tells me and the I.S. agrees that they have a lesser degree of Statue of Liberty than we have on the mainlands, and they ask me to equalize it, you bet your life I did.

CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2007 2007

RANGEL: My response is when governor of Virgin Islands tells me and the I.S. agrees that they have a lesser degree of Statue of Liberty than we have on the mainlands, and they ask me to equalize it, you bet your life I did.

CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2007 2007

The line then follows that outer limit south-westerly to its intersection with the line of equidistance between the Australian and New Zealand mainlands giving half-effect to Three Kings Island.

Signature of the Treaty between the Government of Australia and the Government of New Zealand establishing Certain Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf Boundaries 2004

Yes, the theory brought fresh insight to the ecology of islands; but still more significant, Simberloff added, was that it also addressed insularized habitats on the mainlands.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004