Browsing All posts tagged under »Revolution«

Doug North, Institutional Change and the Middle East Revolutions

March 1, 2011

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I’ve been reading from Douglass C. North’s Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, which takes itself as laying out an institutional theory approach to incremental institutional change, but I stumbled on this short account of “discontinuous change,” which I thought was slightly pertinent to the current revolutions occurring in North Africa and the Middle East.… [Read more…]

Instruments of History

November 27, 2010

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I’ve been reading GeorgieBC‘s wonderful post on The Military Mafia. In it, Georgie mentioned J.F.K., and it reminded me of a piece by Borges I read some years ago. That, in turn, got me thinking about the U.S. media figures openly calling for action against Julian Assange, and the countless murderous commenters who seem to… [Read more…]

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