Abandoned Footnotes

Almost without really meaning to, I've joined the ranks of the twitterati (partly I wanted to keep up with events in Tunisia and Egypt, ...

I know basically nothing about Tunisia. (It seems that few people do: I tried a search for articles on Tunisia in Google Scholar and a few o...

Here's a version of the video below , but now with coups d'etat: For a note on the sources, see my post below .

I am mulling over a post on the events in Tunisia, but I've been distracted. I may get around to it eventually, but right now I've b...

The view that oil is bad for democracy and freedom has become conventional wisdom. (Any view espoused by Thomas Friedman is by definition c...

In Romania the temperature never officially dropped below 10deg C, even when there was ice and snow on the ground, because the law said that...

Happy new year! I've wanted to blog this for a while, but sickness intervened. May all your new years be free of bacterial warfare. At a...

Ok, this is probably the last post on this topic for a while. But a student (thanks Andrew!) put some of the data on European perceptions ...

What does it mean for an institution to be associated with “tolerable” outcomes over a period of time? The question is more subtle than I th...

In an earlier post I wondered about the sensitivity of estimates of US foreign aid to the definition of foreign aid; if people included &qu...

Noah Millmann and Jim Manzi over at The American Scene (and Karl Smith at Modeled Behavior ) have been debating the degree of deference...

A number of people  have  pointed  to the latest reiteration of the fact that Americans do not appear to know  what percentage of the budge...

Rereading the   long post below , it occurred to me that I didn’t mention why the argument I describe there should be called a “resilience” ...

(Fourth in the series promised here . Usual disclaimers apply: this is work in progress and so it is still a bit muddled, though comments ar...