Alice Evans on Nordic gender egalitarianism
So what’s the connection between hierarchy and patriarchy? It is my contention that if everyone is equal, it is much more acceptable for women to get to the top. No one is special. ‘Leaders’ are not...
View ArticleEurope sentences to ponder
Back then, Europeans embodied environmental advocacy, self-actualization, self-expression and other values described by the University of Michigan political scientist Ronald Inglehart as...
View Article13.9 percent less democracy?
Estonian edition: After the Citizenship Act was enacted in 1992, 90% of ethnic-Estonians automatically became citizens while only 8-10% of non-Estonians gained citizenship. This is due to a law that...
View ArticleWith immigration, perceptions matter more than reality
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. Rather than work through the argument, which requires you to read the whole column, I’ll just reproduce the most trollish part: When I am in a foreign...
View ArticleWhat should I ask Nate Silver?
Yes, I will be doing another Conversation with Nate, based in part on his new and forthcoming book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything (I have just started it, but so far it is very good,...
View ArticlePR for the UK?
I say no, we have enough European governments with proportional representation already. Should not someone allow for the possibility of more decisive action? Estimates are suggesting that Labour won...
View ArticleWhat should I ask Christopher Kirchhoff?
I will be doing a Conversation with him. In case you do not know, Christopher self-describes as: Christopher Kirchhoff is an expert in emerging technology who founded the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley...
View ArticleThe French left is now winning
This is a big surprise to many people, as in the first round the right was doing much better in terms of votes and seats. We’ll learn more soon, but in the meantime I am reminded of one of the...
View ArticleMy excellent Conversation with Brian Winter
Here is the video, audio, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: It’s not just the churrasco that made him fall in love with Brazil. Brian Winter has been studying and writing about Latin...
View ArticleMatt Yglesias on neoliberalism and economic growth
And it’s worth asking: Is it true that since 1974, policy debate in the United States has been dominated by a “growth-at-all-costs” brand of “free-market fundamentalism”? I don’t think that actually is...
View ArticleThe changes in vibes — why did they happen?
Clearly it has happened, and it has been accelerated and publicized by the Biden failings and the attempted Trump assassination. But it was already underway. If you need a single, unambiguous sign of...
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Not Lost In Translation: How Barbarian Books Laid the Foundation for Japan’s...
Japan’s growth miracle after World War II is well known but that was Japan’s second miracle. The first was perhaps even more miraculous. At the end of the 19th century, under the Meiji Restoration,...
View ArticleKamala Harris economic record
As a presidential candidate, Ms. Harris proposed replacing Mr. Trump’s 2017 tax cuts with a monthly refundable tax credit worth up to $500 for people earning less than $100,000. The policy, known as...
View ArticleMy excellent Conversation with Alan Taylor, on American history
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Tyler and Taylor take a walking tour of early history through North America covering the decisions, and ripples of those...
View ArticleVenezuela under “Brutal Capitalism”
Jeffrey Clemens points us to some bonkers editorializing in the NYTimes coverage of the likely stolen election in Venezuela. The piece starts out reasonably enough: Venezuela’s authoritarian leader,...
View ArticleHigh and low decoupling, and other matters (from my email)
This is all from an anonymous reader, not by me, but I will not indent: “Hi Tyler, I enjoyed your post – I’m kind of tired of this – and wanted to respond to it as I think what you wrote gets at two...
View ArticleWhat to think about ranked choice voting?
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one key segment: Game theory can help explain how ranked choice voting changes the behavior of candidates, as well as the elites who support...
View ArticleThe pay of Presidents (from my email)
Adjusting for inflation, President Biden is one of the lowest-paid Presidents in American history. See the first and last figures in this analysis from 2012. This source’s figures are all in 2012...
View ArticleDemocratic favor channel
A large body of literature in economics and political science examines the impact of democracy and political freedoms on various outcomes using cross-country comparisons. This paper explores the...
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