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Expeditionary Economics

Posted in International, Macroeconomics, tagged , , , , on June 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The U.S. military is now a major player in economic development. In Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, economic stabilization is a core tenet of its counterinsurgency strategy. Which makes good sense, in theory, but raises a troubling practical question: does the military actually know anything about economic stabilization and development? In a recent essay in [...]

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Are Chile’s Building Codes Getting Too Much Credit?

Posted in International, tagged , , on March 2, 2010 | 12 Comments »

Many commentators have pointed to Chile’s stringent building codes as a key reason why the death toll from its earthquake (in the hundreds at this writing) has been so much lower than in Haiti (in the hundreds of thousands). Unfortunately, much of this commentary confuses two separate concepts: building quality and building codes. Building quality [...]

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