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- Critiques of Edward Baptist
- Critiques of The History Manifesto
- Did inequality cause the First World War?
- Did the "Invisible Blockade" against Allende work?
- Economic growth in ancient Greece
- Fascism was not left-wing!!!
- Greece from Post-war orthodoxy to "Democratic Peronism"
- Ideology & Human Development (on Cuba's social development)
- Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence
- Markets & famines: Amartya Sen is not the last word!
- Nazi political economy
- Random Thoughts on Robert Allen's theory of the Industrial Revolution
- State Capacity & the Sino-Japanese Divergence
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- The Bairoch conjecture & the "tariff-growth paradox" of the late 19th century
- The Calico Acts: Was British cotton made possible by infant industry protection from Indian competition?
- The Napoleonic Blockade & the Infant Industry Argument
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ελαδιοξιδιολατολαχανοκαρυκευμα
A very brief history of Greek diglossia.
Posted in Ancient Greek, Languages
Tagged Ancient Greek, Demotic, Demotiki, Diglossia, Greek, Katharevousa
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שׂבולת שׂמית
Stream-of-consciousness thoughts about why we say “Semitic” even though the root is “Shem”. And, yes, I know the Hebrew letters in the title say “semitic sibboleth” and not “shemitic shibboleth”.
Posted in Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Languages
Tagged Bible, Greek, Hebrew, Masoretes, Semitic, Shem, Shibboleth
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大東亞共現代性圏
I just noticed Tyler Cowen had blogged a Boston Globe article about the number of loanwords in various languages (is there something from the press Cowen will not blog ?), and his own take was to ask, which major language has the lowest percentage of foreign … Continue reading
Posted in East Asia, Food, Languages
Tagged calques, Chinese, Chinese borrowings from Japanese, Hanzi, Japanese-made Chinese words, Kanji, loanwords, wasei kango, 和製漢語
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Debate with Matt on India, China, Cuba, Korea, etc.
Below I quote the lengthy exchange I had with Matt on India, China, Cuba, South Korea, etc. in the comments section of another blog. Since our debate was off-topic, Matt and I have agreed to move it here. My latest reply to Matt is … Continue reading
Posted in Human Development
Tagged Cuba, HDI, human development, Kerala, South Korea
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Polish Illiquidity Preference
If Monty Python decided to resdesign Slavic phonology, they might take some inspiration from Polish.
Proto et al., “Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma”
This is a description of Proto, Rustichini & Sofianos, “Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma”. The text was originally embedded in the longer post, “Where do pro-social institutions come from?“, but several people asked me to make … Continue reading
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