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discussing egypt
I just attended a discussion session with Stanford scholars Lisa Blaydes (Political Scientist) and Joel Beinin (Historian) on the recent uprising in Egypt. The structural factors leading to the revolt...
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Rational Impatience and marshmallows (and development)
Back in 1972 Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel conducted experiments in which he claimed to show a correlation between patience and later success in life – in the experiment kids who could wait for...
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What does it mean to be “tough on crime”?
This is from Alex Tabarrok over at MR: Our focus on prisons over police may be crazy but it is consistent with what I called Gary Becker’s Greatest Mistake, the idea that an optimal punishment system...
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When Markets Discipline Politics
President Jacob Zuma continues to be in conflict with his own Finance Minister, Pravin Gordham, over fiscal policy (and propriety in the management of public finances). The markets trust the latter....
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What do you do when the government refuses to pave the local road?
Residents of Webuye West in the southwest of Kenya did this: Filed under: africa Tagged: bungoma, bungoma county, Infrastructure, Ken Lusaka, Kenya, Politics, Road, Webuye, Webuye West, western province
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Why is Mugabe Still in Power?
Zoe Samudzi provides some excellent answers to the question of why President Robert Mugabe has had such staying power despite the many political and economic upheavals that have beset Zimbawe since the...
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Cash and Markets in Development
This is from a story in Kenya’s Standard Newspaper: Martin Wepukhulu is a small-holder farmer in Trans Nzoia County, popularly described as Kenya’s breadbasket. To produce a two-kilogramme tin of maize...
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A short guide for academic researchers working in African states
This is by Keguro Macharia over at The New Inquiry: You are a researcher, not a tourist. Don’t act like a tourist. Do not be condescending. Do not tell your hosts that they are “clever” or “bright” or...
View ArticleHow to overthrow the Kenyan government in twelve steps
Form a hopelessly fractious political coalition on the back of four years of doing nothing with county governments to demonstrate your chops at transformative governance. Successfully push for...
View ArticleThese results raise the possibility that correlations between linguistic...
This is from a paper by Tom Pepinsky: Whorfian socioeconomics is an emerging interdisciplinary field of study that holds that linguistic structures explain differences in beliefs, values, and opinions...
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