1997-1998 Essay Contest  First Place Essay  Rule the Pool: How
To Increase Economic Growth  Bill Anderson White Bear Lake High
School—South Campus White Bear Lake, Minnesota  A swimmer's
potential is established by heredity and realized through proper
training. Good nutrition is the element that can make that
realization possible or prevent it from happening.  —  Ernest W.
Maglischo (Maglischo 663)   —  Phillip Sanders (qtd. in Crichton
ix)  Like the competitive swimmer whose goal is to achieve
faster times, the ultimate goal of nations is to achieve higher
standards of living through fast and sustained economic growth.
Yet, why some economies grow faster than others and what can be
done to influence economic growth are subjects of ongoing
debate. As with heredity and the competitive swimmer, there is
an inherent economic growth determinant, land resources, the
potential of which can only be realized through proper
"training" or economic growth policies.  Contrary to the earlier
belief that the economic growt