Interesting Links

Interesting articles and links:

- Running surveys in warzones

- Does money buy Hearts and Minds? Mostly research in the Philippines but also elsewhere.

- Understanding the Civil Law, an interesting primer for people without legal background (and some interest in history)

Interesting links

Links of the week:

- Salaries and NGOs (no, money ain't all). Study on incentives for NGO workers in Uganda

- 10 thing political scientist know that you don't (in the USA) 

- Kony 2012 aftermath, Why did Invisible Children dissolve?

- Lobster fishing or lobster farming? 80% of Maine lobster diet is bait?

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Recent interesting articles:

- Mathematically defining Hipsters?

- How can Scandinavian countries tax so much? 

- Distance to the equator and economic development, explanation for the reversal of fortunes? 

- Compensating civilians during war, individual victims under International Law?

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Latest round of interesting articles:

- Separatism meets Charter Cities, in Sardinia via Switzerland

- Missionary printing presses in Africa and contemporary newspaper readership

- Privilege and higher interest rates in the Ottoman Empire

Interesting links

Latest round of interesting articles:

- Why are you armed? Gun culture in Yemen

- Sun Tzu, entrepreneurship and the Austrian School (economics) in "The Political Economy of 'The Art of War'"

- Genetic testing in Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Polynesian, Native American and European contacts.

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Latest round of interesting articles:

- How to talk to terrorist or rather why we should.

- The evidence on travel bans for diseases like Ebola is clear: they don't work

-Taking inspiration from the Torah, "Megillath Esther and the Rule of Law: Disobedience and Obligation"

-A Development Agenda without Developing Countries? The Politics of Penurious Poverty Lines, by Lant Pritchett

Interesting links

Interesting links:

- Spurious correlations correlation is not causation!

- Tiger moms and helicopter parents: The economics of parenting style

- Has increased body weight made driving safer? Apparently yes... in alcohol related accidents.

- Does sex affect religiosity? Changes in Religiosity After First Intercourse in the Transition to Adulthood

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Some recent articles of note:

- Dutch pension plans by the New York Times, praising conservative discounting.

-  Stiglitz and Guzman's Debeaking the Vultures, on the efforts to change the framework of sovereign debt restructuring (after the Argentina ruling)

- Revitalizar La Engaña (Cantabria-Burgos) con un teleferico para tirar del túnel (Spanish)

- Norway increases aid budget but reduces UN contributions.

- Why does Spain have the world's highest concentration of elevators?, The Atlantic explains.

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Recent interesting articles:

- The last Ebola free district in Sierra Leone and how it managed to keep it that way (so far).

- ISIS airstrikes between imperialism and orientalism and how the US discourse has not changed much.

 - The capitalist cure for terrorism, Hernando de Soto, the example of Peru and feedback from Tunisia.

- Not all grades are born equal. The great grade deflation experiment STEM vs Humanities.

- Does Houthi takeover of Yemen's Sanaa endanger world trade?  Personally I think not, but still a good analysis.

 - Charred harvest. The political economy of Somali charcoal?

And how one district in Sierra Leone contained Ebola. - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.h3SnvnVf.dpuf