Abandoned Footnotes
Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Free Market Cults
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(Warning: not about Steve Jobs, or about modern economics). I have a post at the Monkey Cage on Putin’s recent prowess at the hockey rink...
Friday, September 11, 2015
The Futility of Propaganda
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When asked, “What do you know about Yugoslavia?” the peasant, painstaking and placid, answered, “It is a pseudosocialist country run by rev...
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Friday, August 28, 2015
The Mismeasure of Growth
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About six months ago, Tom Pepinsky wrote a post , on the occasion of Lee Kuan Yew’s death, where he argued graphically that Lee Kuan Yew’s ...
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Friday, July 31, 2015
Propaganda as Signaling
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In a lovely piece published nearly three decades ago , the French historian Paul Veyne noted that much “propaganda” art throughout history ...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015
What do people think of democracy around the world? And does it matter?
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(Warning: A long and rambling graph-heavy post on public opinion by someone who has never worked with public opinion data before, and who is...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Principal-agent problems in the Soviet Union, circa 1990
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Widespread fictitious economic accounting was foiling planners to the point that the KGB employed its own spy satellites to ascertain the s...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Electoral Parodies
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I've been reading a lot about various dictators this summer. And again and again I am struck by the existence of what one might call “e...
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