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How Non-conformists Move the World
Some advice from Grant’s (2016) widely read “Originals: How Non-conformists Move the World” – at least those that may apply for researchers: Write a lot. Not because if you don’t publish you will perish, but because it makes your work better. “It is widely assumed that there’s a tradeoff between quality and quantity – if […]
Tags: #Academic writing #Creativity #Limitations #Originals #Procrastination
Kicking Away the Ladder
Cambridge professor of development studies, Ha-Joon Chang, is likely more known is the ‘Global South’ than within universities in North America or Europe – mainly because his writing takes a different approach, sometimes rather boldly so. Of his long list of publications, “Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective” (2002) is the most […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Development economics #Development policy #Ha-Joon Chang #Kicking away the ladder
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Two of the prominent front runners of the US presidential election positions themselves as “anti-establishment” and campaigned to take away the power of the elites and return that power to the people. Reich’s recent book “Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few” (2015) took on many of the issues; essentially questions about democracy, power, […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Elite #Politics #Power #Rules of the Game
Orientalism
Few books have been as widely read and cited as Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said. Reading Orientalism now, it is hard to understand its importance because so many of Said’s ideas have become part of a broader cultural and post-colonial critiques. Despite its influence, in a 2003 Preface, the author writes: “The disheartening part is […]
Tags: #Authority #Orientalism #Power #Representation #Responsibility
Q-Squared
Random control trials and ethnographic studies use very different approaches to answer research questions. Often the underlying epistemological foundations differ, the means of measurement differ, and the process of understanding causation differ. But, does it matter? It one approach more accurate than another? Do qualitative and quantitative studies arrive at similar conclusions? These questions are […]
Tags: #Mixed methods #Poverty analysis #Q-squared #Qualitative #Quantitative
Most read in 2016
As is tradition on most blogs, the most popular stories / articles / posts of the year are summarized. I am somewhat late in reporting, nonetheless, the most read posts on this site of 2016 were: PhD Reality Check Conducting Research in Ethiopia, Read This. Systematic Change (Healthcare) Essential Development Studies Books (Review) Effective Aid […]
Tags: #International development #international development studies #most read in 2016
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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