{"id":1470,"date":"2011-03-26T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2011-03-26T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T16:04:02","slug":"chris-blattman-on-whether-poverty-leads-to-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1470","title":{"rendered":"Chris Blattman on Whether Poverty Leads to Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does poverty lead to violence? That is the question Chris Blattman <a title=\"Does Poverty Lead to Violence?\" href=\"http:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2011\/03\/26\/does-poverty-lead-to-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\">addressed<\/a> a few weeks ago at a conference held at New York University. Chris writes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I don\u2019t yet have a firm answer to the question, but I am a skeptic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can find links to a video of Chris&#8217; talk and to his slides at the link above.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare for academics to make a clear distinction between what they know for sure and what their opinion is on a given topic, so I appreciate Chris&#8217; honesty in saying that he does not know.\u00a0This also explains his tweeting about his skepticism when I posted about a possible causal relationship from food prices to political unrest in the Arab world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1470\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Blattman on Whether Poverty Leads to Violence<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-economics","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-nI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}