- More on Alberto Alesina’s contributions to economics Alberto Bisen, ProMarket
- Khawaja on Cowen on nursing homes Irfan Khawaja, Policy of Truth
- How does Black Lives Matter translate? Olga Korelina, Meduza
- The politics of disorder Kieran Healy, Crooked Timber
Alberto Alesina
Nightcap
- Alesina was one of the most creative economists of his time Guido Tabellini, Il Foglio
- Alberto Alesina. A free-spirited economist Papaioannou & Stantcheva, VOXEU
- “Nation-Building, Nationalism, and Wars” Alesina, Reich, & Riboni, NBER
- The case against Mars Byron Williston, Boston Review
Nightcap
- The optimistic case for Hong Kong Anka Lee, Politico
- Taking political and economic frictions seriously Kevin Bryan, A Fine Theorem
- Patriarchy, fascism, and Dominic Cummings Maria Farrell, Crooked Timber
- Manga Soviet Union World War II Bunna Takizawa, Asahi Shimbun
Lunchtime Links
- Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars [pdf] | Would A Libertarian Military Be More Lethal?
- Formal or Informal, Legal or Illegal: The Ambiguous Nature of Cross-border Livestock Trade in the Horn of Africa [pdf] | A note on the police or – “Why I don’t trust the police.”
- Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade [pdf] | Slowly debunking the trade leads to peace fallacy
- Realism, Liberalism and the Iraq War [pdf] | When Should Intellectuals be held Accountable for Popular Misrepresentations of their Theories?
- High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China [pdf] | When (Where and Why) Women Were More Literate than Men
Lunchtime Links
- Globalization and Political Structure [pdf] | what’s a monopolis?
- Protestantism and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth Century Europe [pdf] | who was James Cooley Fletcher?
- Primed against primacy: the restraint constituency and US foreign policy | polystate, book 2
- Nation-building, nationalism, and wars [pdf] | against libertarian populism
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