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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Democracy is good for economic growth – or is it?
Liberal democracy is normatively preferable over its illiberal and authoritarian alternatives, not least because of important stuff like the greater personal and political freedom it affords to the ordinary person. It also (and relatedly) h...
Yes, voters who fear migrants are sociotropic – and?
Here’s a familiar plot liberals tend to trot out.
It shows, for the case of Germany, that low-immigration areas house a lot of immigration skeptics, while regions with lots of immigrants tend for the most part to be pretty chill about outs...
One year of delivering quantitative social science to the masses
It was just a year ago, in late August 2025, when I finally decided I’d give Substack a go.
I’ve always felt, since forever, that there are lots of mildly-to-moderately interesting ideas about social science rattling around in my brain, a...
Inequality doesn’t damage democracy
I find it theoretically plausible and even likely that inequality damages democracy. If theory is all we had to go by, I’d probably err on the side of “inequality is dangerous.” It’s also what emotionally and personally resonates with me mo...
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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