Political Economy, Blind Spots, and a Challenge to Academics | Anat Admati

There is absolutely no way to understand events before, during, and since the financial crisis of 2007-2009 while ignoring the powerful political forces that have shaped them. Yet, ...

Also, The Parade of the Bankers’ New Clothes Continues: 34 Flawed Claims Debunked 

How Unequal Is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017

This paper estimates the evolution of income inequality in 38 European countries from 1980 to 2017 by combining surveys, tax data and national accounts. We develop a harmonized methodology, using machine learning, nonlinear survey calibration and extreme value theory, in order to produce homogeneous p

What, if anything, is neoliberalism? John Quiggin

the much-argued question of whether the term “neoliberalism” has any useful content, or whether it is simply an all-purpose pejorative to be applied to anything rightwing

Calling Bullshit | a course run by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West

Our aim in this course is to teach you how to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences.

I intend to do some reading over the winter. Any fellow travellers?
There are three posts already on BS in this blog.

Can the World Economy Find a New Leader? | Chatham House Research Paper

https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2019-10-07-WorldEconomyNewLeader.pdf

Modern Populism: Research Advances, Conceptual and Methodological Pitfalls, and the Minimal Definition | Takis Pappas

Populism is one of the most dynamic fields of comparative political research. Although its study began in earnest only in the late 1960s, it has since developed through four distinct waves of scholarship, each pertaining to distinct empirical phenomena and with specific methodological and theoretical priorities. Today, the field is in need of a comprehensive general theory that will be able to capture the phenomenon specifically within the context of our contemporary democracies

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Divided by the Vote: Affective Polarization in the Wake of Brexit

Sara B. Hobolt Thomas J. Leeper James Tilley

A well-functioning democracy requires a degree of mutual respect and a willingness to talk across political divides. Yet numerous studies have shown that electorates, including in the United States, are polarized along partisan lines, generating animosity towards the partisan out-group. In this paper, ... (pdf)