International political economy, international relations, and comparative political economy. Also, Tolkien & Middle-earth.
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Economists waking up in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six to discover international relations.
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By far the biggest loser of Donald Trump’s latest move to rebuild his tariff wall is Brazil, which the US president hit with separate tariffs earlier this month. Its effective tariff rate jumps from 11 to 17.7% ft.trib.al/iHMU9Ou
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Now out in the Journal of Development Studies!
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📚📊 NEW @CGDev RESEARCH: Children who master basic reading and math in primary school earn significantly more as adults. Evidence that foundational literacy and numeracy skills have real economic returns throughout life.
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In this @east_asia_forum piece, I argue Prabowo's new brand of #resourcenationalism combines statism, coercion, and nativism - an approach that won't solve entrenched but increasingly urgent problems of environmental harm and land conflict in #Indonesia.
eastasiaforum.org/2026/06/14…
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Piketty et al claim "the promise that economic growth would 'lift all boats' has not been kept." Yet Piketty's own data show that for the first time in 4 centuries global inequality improved in recent history. We want more global growth, not less.
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Indonesian students protest against government policies xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbREM…
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The idea that area studies and statistics are substitutes and not complements is so tiresome. You know what requires language skills? Running a field experiment with a team. Or collaborating with a government agency to get data. How do you think these projects happen?
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Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.
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Children in Buenos Aires or Yogyakarta who want to talk about Kpop have to first master English and have at least a rudimentary grasp of gay slang and AAVE, just like how generations of European scholars had to study Greek and Latin if they wanted to study the botany of China
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In a bid to boost state revenues, Indonesia will centralize exports of its most prized commodities: coal, palm oil, and more. President Prabowo announced the plan today in a fiery, 95-minute speech. Our story: reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
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Reminder: South Korea's successful industrial policy was predicated on guzzling imports faster than increasing exports, for several decades, supported by extensive external borrowing. Supply of public external loans was esp crucial in late 70s early 80s.
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Previous scholars have argued that it is so over. In this paper, however, I posit that we are so back
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Economists doing comparative politics without reading the political science literature, and political scientists working on inequality without keeping up with the economics literature?
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Indonesia's foreign ministry has warned the defense ministry that an American proposal to give its military "blanket" permission to fly over Indonesian territory risked entangling Jakarta in potential South China Sea conflicts, sources said. Our scoop: reuters.com/world/china/indo…
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Powerful visualization by the @FT: change in Chinese market share for different technologies between 2005 and 2023.
