The Success of Venture Capital following the Death of Communism

The US Secretary of Agriculture named this work as USDA's most successful international project in 2002. Successors to the work continue in an Armenian Foundation —Armenian Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development and in the new Armenian National Agrarian University —whose roots are in the Agribusiness Teaching Center of USDA Marketing Assistance Project (MAP). Results can be seen at CARD.AM and at ICARE.AM as these efforts document Armenian continuation of work begun in MAP by the author during 1998-2000. An important lesson learned from this history concerns how rule-makers of communism easily used the legal rules of communism for corrupt black market gain, resulting in ultimate death of communism. New US Rules: Concern is raised for how new US rules for gun control and voting rights threaten US democracy. Absence of new US rules for commerce have allowed a bi-model income distribution to become a disruptor of US market economy. Economic policy solutions to this problem are presented.