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Seeing like Chicago

Erwin Dekker

Observations about Chicago economics, sociology, literature and more by Erwin Dekker

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The G-Men and the Baptists (Notes from the underground economy II)

I promised a discussion of the sociological and literary dimensions of the policy game last week. Most of these will have to wait another while. Because, even though I just finished Lewis A.H. Caldwell’s novel Policy King, I have to postpon...

8 days ago
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Notes from the Underground....economy

People in Chicago played policy, especially in the Black Belt. It was a simple game, a variant of the lottery, in which a wheel was turned from which twelve little numbered balls were drawn. Most bets would pay if the player had correctly p...

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Adam Smith back among the Chicago Sociologists

Joshua Howard alerted me to Louis Schneider’s book The Scottish Moralists, in response to my Adam Smith in Chicago sociology post. And the book does not disappoint, at all. Okay, okay, it does in one respect: the introductory essay should h...

22 days ago
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Thoughts on Sampson’s ‘Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect’

Two weeks ago Fabio Rojas gave an interesting paper at our PPE workshop on Good Society Sociology. His argument was that sociology has been too much shaped by the ‘social problems’ approach which focuses one-sidedly on society’s ills. This...

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Adam Smith in Chicago....Sociology

This weekend kicks off this year’s Mercatus Fellowship, and we are reading Adam Smith: large chunks of his Theory of Moral Sentiments and selections of his Wealth of Nations. They say you see new things every time you read classic texts, wh...

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