Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Culture and rationality: or why South Asian call centres can be so infuriating

I recently read Kenneth Pollack's Ph.D dissertation on The Influence of Arab culture on Arab Military Effectiveness (which later becam...

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Domain states, tax states and fiscal states

Have been reading a Ph.D dissertation by Wenkai He on t he consolidation of a modern fiscal state in C18th England and late C19th Japan an...

Sunday, November 30, 2014

States and gangs

Having previously defined the state as (a structure of) systematic coercion requiring hierarchy to operate and revenues to sustain itself...

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Origins of the state

The state is systematic coercion requiring hierarchy to operate and revenues to sustain itself extracted from a given territory. The develo...

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Atavism error

What is the most atavistic state on the planet? That would be the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), aka North Korea. It ...

Monday, November 17, 2014

A regulatory wrinkle from rational expectations

The rational expectations hypothesis can be understood in various ways. One is as an equilibrium condition in a model--the model is in e...

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