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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Is capitalist core exploiting the periphery, or is it just Deep Roots?
Between around 1995 and the late 2010s, a wonderful and never before seen thing was happening. These hyper-globalization years saw substantial economic convergence between the developed and developing world. As is usually the case, most eve...
How the theory of second best destroys faith in freer markets
In Economics Without Illusions, Joseph Heath – who’s one of my absolute favorite philosophers – makes a seemingly startling argument that should shock many proponents of (free-market) capitalism. Here’s the key bit:
Markets are, in gener...
Stop saying "correlation is not causation"
Everyone “knows” correlation is not (necessarily) causation. But do they really? I don’t think so. So they should stop saying it.
I imagine most people would nominally and even confidently advocate for the position while at the same time t...
Why I'm skeptical that inequality erodes democracy
A very recent but already highly cited PNAS paper by Rau and Stokes forcefully argues that economic inequality is a key cause of “democratic erosion.” The latter is a very real and worrying phenomenon that means the gradual weakening of dem...
Social media gave us "government by the worst"
I just read Richard Hanania’s new book Kakistocracy, which tries to explain the rise of populism and describe its fatal dangers, alongside some supposed short-run benefits it might have (at least outside the developed world).
I want to use...
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