I'll take your word, but point out that over the past forty years a kind of triumphal consensus about Western democratic capitalism being the best way to run economies has led to apparent deterioration by a variety of measures including political satisfaction. 1/

Perhaps China is a weird outlier, but in a real world of mimetic humans, the subtleties of your regressions will be outweighed by salient successes and failures. Subtleties of research programs are not laurels enough to rest on. /fin