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Are indigenous people’s livelihoods and conservation compatible?

In the early 1960’s, many environmental protection NGOs started to promote conservation of ecosystems all over the globe. Greenpeace’s first stated mission is to “protect... Read More
Through the looking glass (aka the Atlantic Ocean)

In Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), the day-dreamer Alice wonders what it is like to live on the other side of... Read More
Credit & Macroeconomics: An incomplete survey of empirical evidence

Credit growth seems to be the best predictor of future financial instability. This is the lesson that Jorda et. al (2011) draw from looking at... Read More
Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Normative Judgment

Scholars and judges have long made arguments about laws and regulations and justified their arguments with theories about the effects of these legal rules. What... Read More

20 Sep 201720 Sep 2017

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The biology of our political beliefs

Have you ever wondered what is wrong with people who have political views so different from yours? (more…)

20 Sep 201720 Sep 2017

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Through the looking glass (aka the Atlantic Ocean)

In Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), the day-dreamer Alice wonders what it is like to live on the other side of a mirror’s reflection. The novel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What... Read More

6 Sep 201721 Sep 2017

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“Gauche caviar”

The picture above speaks loudly. There’s no room for interpretation. A boy stands on the edge of La Carlota, a military airport in the East of Caracas, after probably having been throwing rocks moments before.... Read More

6 Sep 201721 Sep 2017

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The post-electoral situation in Gabon: a hostile jungle or a promised land?

“Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned”. This quote from Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican leader of the black self-empowerment movement of the early twentieth century, seems to be unfortunately taken for granted... Read More

20 Sep 201720 Sep 2017

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Are indigenous people’s livelihoods and conservation compatible?

In the early 1960’s, many environmental protection NGOs started to promote conservation of ecosystems all over the globe. Greenpeace’s first stated mission is to “protect biodiversity in all its forms”. For WWF its principal objective is to “conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth.” Conservation and climate... Read More

20 Sep 201720 Sep 2017

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Credit & Macroeconomics: An incomplete survey of empirical evidence

Credit growth seems to be the best predictor of future financial instability. This is the lesson that Jorda et. al (2011) draw from looking at aggregate data from 14 countries over the past 140 years.... Read More

31 Aug 201721 Sep 2017

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Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Normative Judgment

Scholars and judges have long made arguments about laws and regulations and justified their arguments with theories about the effects of these legal rules. What empirical law and economics scholars like to do is to... Read More