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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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Neoliberalism* and development do go together

I wanted to write this post for two unrelated but equally important reasons.

The first is simply that many people, including journalists, scholars, and intellectuals opining on economic matters, still haven’t gotten the news on neoliberal...

3 days ago
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Religion is (very slowly) going away

Secularization theory is probably correct

Classical sociologists like Karl Marx and Max Weber envisioned that as modern society advanced, people would increasingly abandon their belief in God (or gods), the supernatural, and other unverifi...

6 days ago
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Stop trying to rationalize voters and their decisions

When voters pick a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, who seems an inexplicable choice to well-informed, reasonable people, the first instinct is too often to rationalize that choice in sociological terms.

Maybe it was neoliberalism...

10 days ago
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Left and right radicals are conspiracists and moral grandstanders

Insights from a fresh dataset

I was once a left-wing radical.

14 days ago
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Worrying about immigrants’ culture and institutions in the developed world

Right-wingers are overstating the data

As far as “highbrow” misinformation about immigration is concerned, I feel the general sentiment among ostensibly tough-minded, critical, tell-you-the-hard-truths people on social media has been shift...

17 days ago
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