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Political Economy, Stats, and Society
Short posts on political-economic and other contemporary societal issues with an emphasis on data, quantitative reasoning, and causal inference.
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Setting the record straight on capitalism, poverty, and World Bank
Free Market Moralism misleads
Migration worries, not economic concerns, boost the AfD
I have explained before that we have precious little evidence for the popular claim that (objective) economic conditions and grievances explain the electoral success of illiberal populism in the developed world.
Revisiting the colonial origins of comparative development
On Sanjay Reddy's overstated critique of AJR
How the Gary Stevenson school of economics fails
Resist slopulism
Economic misperception helps explain populism
When the well-off feel left behind
Does Pinker's culture of honor really explain violence?
New global evidence
Everything you know about Zimbardo, Milgram, and Asch is wrong
A lot of it, anyway
That Current Affairs interview on neoliberalism is a travesty
Economic illiteracy at every other step
Lessons I wish I'd learned as a student
Social science fundamentals I had to discover on my own
Is capitalist core exploiting the periphery, or is it just Deep Roots?
On the latest Hickel paper and the rich-poor gap
How the theory of second best destroys faith in freer markets
Or does it?