Abandoned Footnotes

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 ...

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...

There was a recent paper in the news by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely arguing that Americans substantially underestimate the degree of inco...

Justin Smith has recently written a very interesting series of posts on anarchism as a certain kind of political and moral sensibility (rat...

Preparing for the "policy forum" about Wilkinson and Pickett's "The Spirit Level" I mentioned here , I found Deinige...

A fascinating bit from The Art of Not Being Governed that I never got around to blogging when I first read it: In general, roots and tubers...

(Another one in the series promised here ; I’m writing a paper. This is still somewhat muddled, so read at your own risk, though comments ar...

The NY Times has a really  nice piece on the conflict between the San Bushmen and the Botswanan state that illustrates pretty well some of ...

In his classic Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Albert Hirshmann suggested that “voice” and “exit” are the two basic responses to organizational pr...