My humble opinion on the Hausmann Hidalgo thesis as presented by Plummer’s review in the Washington Post.
Which is to say, I have not read Hausmann or Hidalgo myself, and they may be operating at a plane which is beyond what I have learned. But here goes…
The Obvious
Institutional analysis has failed to provide the promised explanation [...]
Brian,
I think one route to resolving the impass surrounding Zionism is to concentrate on the locus of power. Between modern Israel and its neighbors there is an animosity which has many sources and few diffusers. But the central problem is the question of whom shall have power over whom.
In Christ, however, we have [...]
The office is having a penny war fundraiser.
The obvious way to win such a contest is to only contribute pennies, and only to one’s own pool, since any defensive actions, other coins to other pools, must necessarily be divided among the other pools.
If there are five pools, the expected contribution to one’s own pool is [...]