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Scott Gehlbach · University of Chicago
Leaving Paris
On a warm summer day in late August 2019, we moved into a third-floor apartment in Paris’s residential 15th arrondissement. Standing on our balcony and looking to the left, we could see the district’s mairie—its town hall—and behind it the Eiffel ...
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Scott Gehlbach · University of Chicago
History and Economic History
Can historians and economic historians understand each other? That was the subtext of a panel discussion on "Number Trouble" at last weekend's meeting of the American Association for Slavic and East European Studies (ASEEES). On the panel were som...
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Scott Gehlbach · University of Chicago
Is Formal Theory Back?
In blurbing my text on Formal Models of Domestic Politics, David Laitin expressed what I then only dimly perceived to be the book's ambition: My expectation is that Scott Gehlbach's Formal Models of Domestic Politics will become the standard te...
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Scott Gehlbach · University of Chicago
Life and Death During the Transition Depression
Cross-posted from Broadstreet, a new blog devoted to historical political economy. The New York Times published an interesting pair of reports on Tuesday. The first related a recent study in Health Affairs that documents a staggering, and unexpec...
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Scott Gehlbach · University of Chicago
What Did Stalinist Industrialization Accomplish?
Cross-posted from Broadstreet, a blog devoted to historical political economy. The spring quarter at Chicago starts in a week. I will be teaching a course on the political economy of communism and the postcommunist transition. I love this class, ...
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Scott Gehlbach · University of Chicago
The (Limited) Power of Persuasion
Cross-posted from Broadstreet, a new blog devoted to historical political economy. Among the numerous consequences of COVID for everyday life, there is this: Many Americans will not venture beyond their own dining rooms for Thanksgiving this year...
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Scott Gehlbach · University of Chicago
State Power and the Power Law
Cross-posted from Broadstreet, a blog devoted to historical political economy. Pavi had a great post recently on the different ways that historical political economists have conceptualized and measured state capacity. I want to follow up with a s...
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Varun Immanuel Premkumar · Educator and Researcher
Patterns in Adulthood
Everything I’m reflecting on here is based on my own lived experience, not on any kind of rigorous social science study. Lately, I’ve been thinking about whether, in my early adulthood—even when I saw myself as very free-thinking—I was mostly ope...
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Eduardo González-Mora
A scholar’s guide to steering your PhD advisor
First, acknowledge that your PhD supervisor is not your employer. Instead, consider strategies to manage this relationship proactively and to derive maximal benefit from their expertise. Here, I share my perspective and recount my experience as a ...
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Eduardo González-Mora
When 'You can do anything' shackles us
Positive psychology and new-age spiritualities have sold us a seductive fantasy: that desire alone can shape reality. "Visualize your goals", "believe in yourself", "the universe conspires in your favor". But this mantra of "you can do anything" i...
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