Today’s Washington Post has a must-read article about how Mohammed Bouazizi ignited — literally — the wave of political unrest in the Arab World:
Published March 27, 2011
Category: Politics
Published March 26, 2011
Chris Blattman on Whether Poverty Leads to Violence
Does poverty lead to violence? That is the question Chris Blattman addressed a few weeks ago at a conference held at New York University. Chris writes:
Published March 24, 2011
In Which I May or May Not Suffer from Confirmation Bias About Food Prices
As the title of this post indicates, confirmation bias may well be getting the better of me, but the main thesis of this Foreign Policy article by Annia Ciezadlo coincides with the findings of the empirical work I have been doing recently: