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A blog on politics and economics

Sunday, November 23, 2025

"Things happen" in the White House

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Female journalists have been the target of Donald Trump this past week—hardly for the first time. One of them dared to ask about the murder ...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Is the London Consensus Just Wishful Thinking?

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In The London Consensus , a group of economists bring together contributions presented at an event held at the London School of Economics in...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Piketty after some tough book reviews

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In one of his most recent articles , Thomas Piketty states that he considers his book A Brief History of Equality the best expression of his...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

The federalist proposals of Morelli and Piketty

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I was recently invited to a dinner in Barcelona where I met Massimo Morelli , Professor of Economics and Political Science at Bocconi Univer...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

Do we now know why nations like the USA fail?

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Banerjee and Duflo, winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019, are leaving the United States to begin working in Switzerland. In my fi...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

The Federalist Utopia versus the Nationalist Dystopia

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Most African languages use the same word for “guest” and “stranger” (as James Robinson notes in his Nobel Lecture ). African immigrants must...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Free speech as part of economic and social welfare

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Karen Attiah, the woman who hired Jamal Khashoggi, has been fired from The Washington Post . Khashoggi, a journalist, was brutally murdered ...
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