Aradhya
@econ-aradhya.bsky.social
Development guy. Keynes Appreciator. Russell Westbrook's #2 fan
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The culture of Bluesky is probably going to be pretty sticky right. Tumblr was initially seeded by people leaving LiveJournal purges of LGBT content. And it’s retained its own distinctive fan related cultures even today.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The culture of Bluesky is probably going to be pretty sticky right. Tumblr was initially seeded by people leaving LiveJournal purges of LGBT content. And it’s retained its own distinctive fan related cultures even today.
As an aside, people also underrate how much Taiwan and Korea’s early growth was post-war recovery. If you start the baseline at 30’s. Like they recover more slowly than Europe (relative to their civil wars. It’s only into the 70s where their growth starts becoming impressive.
I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
April 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
As an aside, people also underrate how much Taiwan and Korea’s early growth was post-war recovery. If you start the baseline at 30’s. Like they recover more slowly than Europe (relative to their civil wars. It’s only into the 70s where their growth starts becoming impressive.
I get what Janelle is hinting at. But exclusionary distribution on an ethnic basis is Lebanese-style or Dutch confessionalism.
i think it is important to clarify that this — the exclusionary distribution of benefits on some sort of ethnic or national basis — isn’t socialism. it’s, you know, something else.
After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them
December 11, 2024 at 11:12 AM
I get what Janelle is hinting at. But exclusionary distribution on an ethnic basis is Lebanese-style or Dutch confessionalism.
Despite all the historical conflicts, Syria will only be second Arab post-insurgent regime if it consolidates, after Algeria. Yemen and Libya are still split. The Middle East has had fewer successful insurgencies than Europe, Asia or Africa.
"Military Operations Directorate enters the Radio and Television Building to broadcast a statement announcing the end of Assad's rule"
It’s over, Assad is done
It’s over, Assad is done
December 8, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Despite all the historical conflicts, Syria will only be second Arab post-insurgent regime if it consolidates, after Algeria. Yemen and Libya are still split. The Middle East has had fewer successful insurgencies than Europe, Asia or Africa.
An interesting feature of the fertility transition is that early transition countries often end up at higher TFRs.
It's fascinating to me that Japan's reputation as the paragon of very low birth rates has survived in pop culture - it's had a higher birth rate than almost anywhere else in developed East Asia for two full decades, and a higher one than China for several years!
December 6, 2024 at 8:18 AM
An interesting feature of the fertility transition is that early transition countries often end up at higher TFRs.
Vietnam is obviously a very impressive growth story. But I think the Cambodian growth story is underdiscussed because it had terrible fundamentals, and it’s done unbelievably well in the last 20 years.
Biased opinion but it is really understudied case study for development economists because it got a lot of the "fundamentals" right (human capital, land rights, industrial policy) and also some good growth episodes.
Vietnam has a lot going on
• High speed rail
• Large metro buildout
• Production spillovers from China
• Structural transformation through services and higher education
• High speed rail
• Large metro buildout
• Production spillovers from China
• Structural transformation through services and higher education
December 1, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Vietnam is obviously a very impressive growth story. But I think the Cambodian growth story is underdiscussed because it had terrible fundamentals, and it’s done unbelievably well in the last 20 years.
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Every year I do a big presentation on decarbonization. Here's another preview: Texas installed solar capacity will probably surpass installed wind capacity in 2025.
November 24, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Every year I do a big presentation on decarbonization. Here's another preview: Texas installed solar capacity will probably surpass installed wind capacity in 2025.
Wow the intermittency problem of renewables is close to being solved. Now seasonal storage is probably the trickiest thing to deal with.
Every year I do a big presentation on decarbonization. Here's another preview: Texas installed solar capacity will probably surpass installed wind capacity in 2025.
November 24, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Wow the intermittency problem of renewables is close to being solved. Now seasonal storage is probably the trickiest thing to deal with.
The search function is just as bad as the other site, and Twitter search peaked in 2022.
November 16, 2024 at 12:01 PM
The search function is just as bad as the other site, and Twitter search peaked in 2022.
There have only been three democratically elected Marxist governments, South Asia accounts for two of them. And three out five if we include subnational governments.
November 16, 2024 at 7:32 AM
There have only been three democratically elected Marxist governments, South Asia accounts for two of them. And three out five if we include subnational governments.
Sri Lanka is also a strange case of very low incomes and democratisation. But it ultimately went through a particularly harsh state building process.
From @novosad.bsky.social. As Fukuyama has stressed as well, India is an example of premature democratization, which comes with benefits and costs
Benefits included expanded welfare at an early stage of development
Costs include electorally driven rent seeking and weak state capacity
Benefits included expanded welfare at an early stage of development
Costs include electorally driven rent seeking and weak state capacity
November 13, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Sri Lanka is also a strange case of very low incomes and democratisation. But it ultimately went through a particularly harsh state building process.
There’s a relatively good argument for removing PNTR for China. It’s just inflationary lol
November 9, 2024 at 11:26 AM
There’s a relatively good argument for removing PNTR for China. It’s just inflationary lol