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Joined February 2014
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RT @GarettJones: Immigrant crime studies are typically underpowered, and hence the results are generally uninformative. @akoustov with ano…
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Honestly, China's genetic history might actually be exceptional anywhere in the Old World in that it seems to be the only major civilization that didn't go through a massive population replacement in its ancient history. This was likely due to very early adoption of farming.
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Wow, no one could have possibly predicted that late-20th century “historiography” would be less accurate than the ancient sources that they hate so much.
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A Somália é um caso super interessante porque o Estado era tão predatório que após seu colapso e transição à anarquia a vida da população MELHOROU! Leeson (2007) mostra que entre 18 indicadores de desenvolvimento, 14 ficaram melhores, 2 ficaram basicamente iguais, e apenas dois (relacionados à educação) pioraram. Leeson & Williamson (2009) explicam com uma teoria da segunda-melhor alternativa. Claro, seria ótimo se a Somália pudesse ter um Estado organizado e capaz de prover bens públicos. Mas quando a única alternativa estatal factível é um Estado controlado por uma facção de mercenários, talvez a segunda-melhor alternativa seja, de fato, a anarquia. Para quantos outros países (Sudão? R.D. Congo? Yemen?) a anarquia, onde nenhum grupo prevalece suficientemente para obter monopólio do uso da força, seria uma opção melhor? Leeson, P. T. (2007). Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse. Journal of comparative economics, 35(4), 689-710. Powell, B., Ford, R., & Nowrasteh, A. (2008). Somalia after state collapse: Chaos or improvement?. Journal of economic behavior & organization, 67(3-4), 657-670. Leeson, P. T., & Williamson, C. R. (2009). Anarchy and development: An application of the theory of second best. Law and Development Review, 2, 77.
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Replying to @EdwardKonings
A Somália é um caso super interessante porque o Estado era tão predatório que após seu colapso e transição à anarquia a vida da população MELHOROU! Leeson (2007) mostra que entre 18 indicadores de desenvolvimento, 14 ficaram melhores, 2 ficaram basicamente iguais, e apenas dois (relacionados à educação) pioraram. Leeson & Williamson (2009) explicam com uma teoria da segunda-melhor alternativa. Claro, seria ótimo se a Somália pudesse ter um Estado organizado e capaz de prover bens públicos. Mas quando a única alternativa estatal factível é um Estado controlado por uma facção de mercenários, talvez a segunda-melhor alternativa seja, de fato, a anarquia. Para quantos outros países (Sudão? R.D. Congo? Yemen?) a anarquia, onde nenhum grupo prevalece suficientemente para obter monopólio do uso da força, seria uma opção melhor? Leeson, P. T. (2007). Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse. Journal of comparative economics, 35(4), 689-710. Powell, B., Ford, R., & Nowrasteh, A. (2008). Somalia after state collapse: Chaos or improvement?. Journal of economic behavior & organization, 67(3-4), 657-670. Leeson, P. T., & Williamson, C. R. (2009). Anarchy and development: An application of the theory of second best. Law and Development Review, 2, 77.
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Um dos experimentos naturais mais interessantes que tivemos em economia monetária nos últimos anos foi o caso a Somália. Como funciona a oferta de moeda em um país sem governo? Uma das coisas mais reveladoras desse experimento é a fragilidade da tese cartalista de que o valor da moeda é dado pela imposição da autoridade estatal. Mesmo sem nenhum governo para impor a obrigatoriedade de aceitação ou a necessidade da moeda para pagamento de impostos, os somalis continuaram a usar os schillings antigos. De início muitos senhores da guerra somali e comerciantes tiveram a ideia de importar (sobretudo de Singapura) novas notas de schillings ou fabricar eles mesmos novas moedas. Como consequência a oferta das mesmas disparou, com cada novo fabricante tentando usar sua capacidade de importação/fabricação para aumentar seu poder de compra. Como consequência a inflação medida nessas notas aumentou, reduzindo o poder de compra das mesmas e desvalorizando o schilling para praticamente nada em relação ao dólar. Quando o poder de compra dessas notas caiu ao seu custo de produção, a produção estabilizou e por consequência também o poder de compra das notas.
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Mehdi Hasan was 30 years old in 2009 when he called non-Muslims ‘animals with diseased minds.’ He was so extreme that he even attacked ‘dog and music lovers’, since dogs and music are haram in Islam. He also compared homosexuals to pedophiles. He only apologized a decade later, because the video leaked. Mehdi claims he has totally changed, which I find hard to believe given his actions and the fact that he practices Twelver Shia Islam, where lying (Taqiyya) is completely allowed. Mehdi hates when this video goes viral. It would be a shame if it did.
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Mehdi, I'm sorry, you don't get to say racist stuff about Ramaswamy or Patel, any more than Bo French gets to say racist stuff about Indian UT fans. Being a leftist doesn't give you a free pass to be a racist.
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Chuck Schumer scored a 1600/1600 on the old, more g-loaded SAT
So Schumer is literally just the greatest political mind in American history correct?
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Impeach and remove RFK Jr.
*US SURPASSES 5,000 MEASLES CASES FOR FIRST TIME IN 35 YEARS
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I'm tired of defending woman.. WTF is this woman doing on camera..
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Indian males are very frustrated because they’re realizing, as the diaspora spreads and the entire globe becomes exhausted at the izzat, the jugaad, the scammy shenanigans, that no matter what caste they were back home… … to the rest of the world, they’re all just dalit.
Indian man tells a woman he wants to “slay” her, claiming it's because he is an upper-caste Brahmin.
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Gina Hinojosa is Texas’s most Spanish-fluent governor since San Jacinto
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Wow. For years, an official in Arkansas allegedly tampered with bar exam scores, pulling points from some test takers and giving them to others. This caused numerous failing exams to pass, and resulted in "at least one instance" where an otherwise passing exam fell below the requisite threshold. cc: @BarExamTutor
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reminder that 1960s cambodia had a thriving music scene that combined traditional khmer sounds with western genres (psychedelic rock, jazz, etc.) and almost every single musician died in the 1970s genocide. the singer of this record disappeared and her body has never been found.
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hindu hate is pretty targeted. mostly they don't like muslims, but mostly it's avoidance
Yet a single Hindu still hasn't flown a plane into a building. We are really bad at being hateful.
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you have no reason to be gay!
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Replying to @RayVG5 @realKalos
Wide hips and big tits signal fertility plus her fat distribution is ideal, mostly in legs as opposed to stomach.
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I am listening and learning...
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