Political Economy, Stats, and Society
Tibor RutarShort posts on political-economic and other contemporary societal issues with an emphasis on data, quantitative reasoning, and causal inference.
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What has development economics ever done for us?
Deena Mousa over at Under Development wrote a neat piece on Malawi and how we aren’t really able to explain why the country is as terribly poor as it is. She makes some telling comparisons with Rwanda, which has been relatively successful i...
Islam and the willingness to fight
The other day on X, I came across this fairly viral post by Noah Carl, screenshotted below.
There’s seemingly a strong link between the share of Muslim population in a country and the citizens of that country expressing willingness to figh...
Tucker Carlson, you don't want to be comparing Russia to the West
I wrote this short post in December 2025, after Caolan Robertson’s video (referenced below) went live, but totally forgot to publish it. I still think it’s cool, so here it is with a bit of a delay!
The crazed arch-ideologue of the...
Did inequality trigger the rise of populism?
In a 2019 Foreign Affairs piece, Francis Fukuyama threw his weight behind the standard economic story for the rise of populism over the past two decades and the onset of the democratic recession. Here’s how he put it:
I concur with the c...
Explaining the Italian South-North divergence
Every once in a while on social media, people start intensely wondering what explains why Northern Italy is roughly twice as developed as the South. The regional differences really are quite dramatic (see below), and Matt Yglesias rightly (...
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