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Political Economy, Stats, and Society

Tibor Rutar

Short posts on political-economic and other contemporary societal issues with an emphasis on data, quantitative reasoning, and causal inference.

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Of course geography influences economic development

In his blurb for Why Nations Fail, Niall Ferguson says that Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson have bad news for “those who think a nation’s economic fate is determined by geography.” Instead, he says, it’s “man-made institutions, not the la...

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More neoliberalism, less inequality

It’s not easy to define neoliberalism in clear terms, and it’s even harder to measure it. I’m happy to grant that off the bat. But one pragmatic suggestion I like and have often used in the past is to rely on economic freedom indexes, espec...

8 days ago
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Big Gods theory of human civilization is false

What explains the puzzle of human hyper- or ultra-sociality? That humans (and other animals) cooperate with kin as well as some unrelated individuals, with whom favors are exchanged, is perfectly explicable by evolutionary game theory and r...

12 days ago
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Setting the record straight on capitalism, poverty, and World Bank

I was alerted to Ryan Ward’s (Free Market Moralism on Substack) very popular piece on capitalism and poverty from last year. One of my readers found it persuasive and wanted to hear my take. I agreed to a writeup because the piece is quite...

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Migration worries, not economic concerns, boost the AfD

I have explained before that we have precious little evidence for the popular claim that (objective) economic conditions and grievances explain the electoral success of illiberal populism in the developed world. Despite what Hasan Piker, Ce...

19 days ago
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