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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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When does more inequality go with less democracy?

I’ve written several times now on how we actually have precious little data to support the common idea that inequality erodes democracy. The existing (mostly correlational) research is highly mixed, a quasi-experimental design is unable to...

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Are we sure the resource curse is even a thing?

Ordinary folks innocent of social science sometimes think that one key way in which economies get prosperous is by getting their hands on lots of natural resources. One prominent naive account of how Europe got so rich in the first place po...

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I can’t make sense of what is happening in America

Here’s how the world of democracy and autocracy looks like today.

Plotted is the V-Dem’s Liberal Democracy Index (LDI). It’s designed to capture:

both electoral and liberal aspects of democracy and goes from the lowest (0) to the highes...

11 days ago
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The world’s inequality paradox

Do people from different societies regard inequality stemming from different sources more or less tolerable? If we describe two simple inequality types - inequality based on actual merit versus inequality based on mere luck - where in the...

14 days ago
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Did Europe rise and China fall because of family and clans?

Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr (last year’s econ Nobel winner), and Guido Tabellini have a new book out – Two Paths to Prosperity – which seeks to explain the social and, through it, developmental divergence between Europe and China between 1000 a...

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