There is a great article on peer reviewing (sorry, gated) by Beth Miller, Jon Pevehouse, Ron Rogowski, Dustin Tingley, and Rick Wilson in the current issue of PS: Political Science and Politics (HT Marc Bellemare). My favorite part of the article is not the guidelines on how to be a good peer…
I wrote several months ago about a long-term project on the colonial origins of local economic governance in Java, and in particular, on the importance of ethnicity and colonial migration. The first substantial output of that project is now available….
“Interdisciplinary” is a hot term in academic circles these days—recall, if you will, the Mark Taylor’s proposal to reorganize the university around on “zones of inquiry” such as “Mind, Body, Law, Information, Networks, Language, Space, Time, Media, Money, Life and…
Randall Morck and Bernie Yeung recently published a thoughtful essay entitled “Economics, History, and Causation.” They argue that in the quest for causal identification, economists have come to rely too much on econometric techniques such as instrumental variables regression. (A…
