Abandoned Footnotes

Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.

Monday, February 03, 2014

Francisco Franco, Robust Action, and the Power of Non-Commitment

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(Warning: speculation about Spanish history during the Franco era by an amateur). I’m currently in Spain, doing some research on Fran...
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Endnotes

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It's the solstice: time to take stock, and (in the Northern hemisphere, where I am right now) give thanks to the guardians of Asgard for...
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Sunday, December 08, 2013

The Age of Democracy

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(Part of an occasional series on  the history of political regimes . Contains some work in progress.) This is the age of democracy, ideol...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Aztec Political Thought

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(A footnote on Inga Clendinnen’s extraordinary “ Aztecs: An Interpretation .” If there’s a better book on the Aztecs than this, I want to r...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Perils of Public Opinion Research in Libya, circa 2000

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This story of how Mabroka al-Werfalli (lecturer in politics at the University of Benghazi, previously the University of Garyounis) managed t...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

Inequality Regimes and Rawlsian Growth Rates: Some thoughts on the evolution of inequality 1960-2010, with special reference to Venezuela

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(Mostly an excuse to play with the  Standardized Worldwide Income Inequality Database , compiled by  Frederick Solt , which I just discover...
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