Liberty

The Narrow Corridor

Nobel prize winners Acemoglu and Robinson followed up their Why Nations Fail (2012) with The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (2019).  I was not impressed with this book. The core argument of this book is not new. It may be more philosophically grounded, but in 2012 Duncan Green wrote From Poverty […]

Tags: #Acemoglu #Duncan Green #Liberty #Philosophy #Politics #Power #Robinson #States #The Narrow Corridor

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Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba

Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Patrice Lumumba” (2014) by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. This is a great summary, but might have since been overshadowed by a book published the year […]

Tags: #Freedom #Liberty #Patrice Lumumba #Struggle #United Nations

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Democracy in Chains

Democracy in Chains

Nearly on a weekly basis during the Trump years we heard pundits proclaim something along the lines of “who saw it coming?!” While the specifics were not predictable, the trend was clear. One of those for whom the writing was on the wall was historian and public policy expert Nancy MacLean, who published Democracy in […]

Tags: #Buchanan #Charles Koch #Democracy #Liberty #Nancy MacLean

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Logan Cochrane

Logan is a 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 twenty 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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