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The plight of migrant workers (and hints of Chinese nationalism): If there’s one takeaway lesson from all the migrant worker stories in the news, it’s that they are quite often treated like crap....
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Critical Junctures and Path Dependency in “Why Nations Fail”: Implications...
Greeted with wide acclaim, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, should put to bed all debate on using foreign aid to promote economic development on a national level....
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I apologize for the dearth of posts lately. I have been reading a lot of books the old-fashioned way, chasing girls down so that I can smell their hair and generally just enjoying life...
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Keynesianism, the Global Economy, and Responsibility
Economist Joseph Stiglitz has an op-ed out in Project Syndicate lamenting bad policies for the current economic stagnation of the West. This response comes from economist Peter Boettke, and I think it...
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Surowiecki on Intellectual Piracy
James Surowiecki had an excellent article in the June 9 issue of the New Yorker about countries committing intellectual piracy. It includes a nice summary of how “stealing” patented ideas played a...
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Anti-Sikh Riots, Eastern Europe’s Normalcy
Here is a pdf from economists Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman on life in Eastern Europe 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall came down, a sense of...
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1953
In 1953 I was just old enough to have some sense of what was going on in the world. Have things gotten better since then or worse? On the whole, better, I’d say. Herewith, two lists to which many...
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Artunç paper on legal decentralization and the Ottoman Empire
Awhile back Tyler Cowen linked to this paper (pdf) by Cihan Artunç on legal pluralism in the Ottoman Empire, and I found it to be really interesting. Here is the abstract, followed by some comments...
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Mexican Underdevelopment: Pop-Sociology
It’s six a.m., I am sipping my first cup of coffee on the small balcony near the tall coconut tree. It’s still dark but I can see a short stocky woman sweeping the ground of the open space in front of...
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Eye Candy: the GDP (PPP) per capita of OECD Administrative Units (UPDATED)
The countries I’ve filled in were about half of the OECD. The data is hard to get on administrative units elsewhere in the world (I got my data from the OECD website), but it was also hard to get for...
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Which MPOs are most efficient?
I have been working on a project to measure the efficiency of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). MPOs are one of the levels of government often forgotten. When we think of government we...
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Contrary to popular myth, Democrats are just as ideological as Republicans, and Republicans are just as group-centric Democrats The Rule of Karlowitz: Fiscal Change and Institutional Persistence (pdf)...
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“The Economic Origins of Territorial States”
That’s the title for a paper by Scott Abramson in the Department of Politics at Princeton. Among the gems in this excellent paper: […[ before the French Revolution, before the era of the mass conscript...
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Some Quick Facts About Nepal
Dr J suggested I post some thoughts on the recent, devastating earthquake in Nepal, but I don’t know if I have much to add. Over at Policy of Truth, one of Dr Khawaja’s friends was in Nepal when the...
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Greece Needs a Radical Transformation
Only with radical changes could Greece rise like a phoenix from its economic mess.
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Cultural Adaptation to Climate Change? Requesting Feedback
I am currently working on adaptation to climate change and would appreciate a bit of feedback. I find feedback can be useful, if only to get me out of the ivory tower. A brief background: When...
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Growing Poverty in the US: A Repost (In Honor of Bernie Sanders)
This is an old post, reproduced today in honor of American Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders It’s vital to the liberal narrative that pretty much everything has to go generally downhill...
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Tricks of Unequal Poverty: A Repost (In Honor of Bernie Sanders)
Note: This is an old post, reproduced today in honor of American Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders In the previous installment: I explained how the general standard of living in...
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Migration from Bangladesh: Causes and Challenges
Migration and emigration from Bangladesh is a regular phenomenon. Historically, large scale migration from the region constituting present-day Bangladesh started after the tea plantation was introduced...
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Philosophical Research on Seasteading
The Seasteading Institute has recently published my philosophical dissertation on ‘Seasteading’. You can find it in the key research section of their Law and Policy page:...
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