We’ll be discussing the following:
Doug Bandow, “Balancing Beijing,” The National Interest
Thomas Friedman, “China to the Rescue? Not!” New York Times
See you then.
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Discussion for Friday
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tires and Tariffs and Health Care Reform
Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the NYTimes:
“WASHINGTON — In a break with the trade policies of his predecessor, President Obama announced on Friday night that he would impose a 35 percent tariff on automobile and light-truck tires imported from China.
The decision is a major victory for the United Steelworkers, the union that represents American tire workers. And Mr. [...]
Ambassador Singh to Speak on Thursday
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Department of Political Science
at the University of North Texas
is pleased to welcome
Ambassador Swashpawan Singh
former Ambassador of India
to the Offices of the United Nations in Geneva
speaking on the topic
“The Indian Story: More Fact Than Fiction”
Thursday, September 10, 2009
2:00-3:30 PM
Wooten Hall Room 119
Paul Krugman’s answer to a pressing question
Posted in Uncategorized on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Economists, as a rule, are pretty smart. Often the smartest people in the room. But, as Paul Krugman notes, they are suceptible to believing their own hype.
Welcome back…
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past Thursday was the first day of fall semester here at UNT. I’ve just posted the online version of the undergraduate IPE syllabus, including links to relevant readings. I see that some of you have already starting perusing some of the op/ed pieces. Never too soon to start formulating ideas…and to be sure, the [...]
Food riots?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beatriz Magaloni, food riots, political economy, protest, Steph Haggard on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Douglas Kell, head of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), called this spring for an increase of £100 million a year to be spent on food research in the UK alone. While it’s not surprising that the head of a research council would call for more funding, the rationale for said call is [...]
Measuring state capacity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil Conflict, democracy, state capacity, taxation on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past week I finished up some revisions to a paper that compares 15 different ways that the concept of state capacity has been operationalized in studies of civil conflict. These 15 measures fit into three broad theoretical categories: military capacity, bureaucratic/administrative capacity, and finally political insitutional coherence and quality. Basically, is state capacity the [...]
