I love what 60 years of economics envy have done to the social sciences.
Salvation is a selective incentive
A guide to Alternative for Germany’s donation scandals
Update June 24, 2021 German prosecutors have asked the European Parliament to lift Meuthen’s immunity. In other words, the co-leader of the self-styled law-and-order party has become the object of a criminal investigation. Update April 19, 2019 The prosecutor for Berlin is investigating the AfD’s treasurer over support the party received from the association-for-whatnot (see…
What we are reading: Legislative Strength, Government Participation & Protest Voting
The debate about alleged protest vote for the radical right is really, really stale. A new paper promises to bring some much-needed fresh air. My students were not really convinced. Are they just picky?
Some light reading to get in the mood for the French regional elections
The warning signs have been present for some time. Les Républicains are on the verge of a crackup. Caught between Macron’s LRM and Le Pen’s RN, the party’s electoral space […]
When you run a predatory journal…
… but can’t be arsed to insert its name into the email template
In a land before time: offprints
Because there is a pandemic, we are improving the home. Because I’ve spent a year in the so-called office (i.e. the box room), the box room office is in particular need of improvement. Because it’s my box room office, it needs an especially good clean-out before there is any possibility of improvement. That’s why I’m…
Sorry, we got hacked again
Apologies to anyone visiting here who was confronted with links to lotteries, flashing signs, and even (shudder) literal bells and whistles. It’s (by my count) the third time my site got hacked since it went up in flames earlier this year. Why, I hear you ask, would anyone bother? Why go through the trouble of…
Markets in everything
In this, your friendly neighborhood economist explains how extortion can reach a nice, efficient equilibrium where everyone is reasonably happy. Fascinating stuff.
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying, Rachel Monroe writes.
What we are reading: Gender and the Radical Right Vote
Why are women (mostly) immune to the radical right? It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a good brain is rarely in want of a male-dominated, chauvinist, sexist radical right party. Or something along these lines. Austen aside, for most radical right parties in (Western) Europe, the male-to-female ratio in their…
I tricked the algo, and now I need a new hip
Computer assisted surveillance is baked into the design of our apps and devices. Sometimes its results are mildly funny.