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Bombed into Communists: US war in Vietnam
Dell and Querubin’s paper 'Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention' (2016) finds evidence from the Vietnam War that a strategy aimed...
Jing-Yuan Deng
Apr 24, 2022


Dominant Currency Paradigm - Do bilateral exchange rates matter for trade?
In their article, Gopinath et al. (2020) found evidence that global trade volumes and prices are significantly driven by the value of the...
Ioannis Milioritsas
Apr 3, 2022


Why Oil Mattered (and Still Does)
Yergin’s The Prize provides a sweeping account of the history of oil, using it as a lens to view the most impactful economic, political,...
Sean Hays
Mar 30, 2022


On the opposing nationalisms of Russia and Ukraine
Harris (2020) investigates the differing nationalist ideologies developed in Russia and Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet...
Filippos Papasavvas
Mar 7, 2022

How will the West punish Russia for invading Ukraine?
In a policy note from January 2022, prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, a...
Swaantje Marten
Mar 1, 2022


Data bias as a source of sexism
Invisible Women is a damning critique of a world that – because it is designed by men, for men – is biased against women to varying...
Sean Hays
Feb 5, 2022


The Polish automotive sector – an FDI-led success story
Markiewicz (2019) investigates the Polish state’s role in nurturing the country’s automotive industry. By using protectionist,...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022


On the origins of (de)regulation
Starting in the 1970s, neoliberalism and deregulation began to rear their head, leading to the rollback of government under Thatcherism...
Sean Hays
Feb 5, 2022


The economic impact of climate change - A debate among economists
In their article, Nordhaus et al. (2017) investigate the economic impact of global warming. They estimate that a 3⁰C and 6 ⁰C increase in...
Ioannis Milioritsas
Feb 5, 2022


On the relationship of consumerism and body fetishism
Baudrillard (1998), in the eighth chapter of his book ‘The Consumer Society’ explores the way in which body fetishism, particularly of...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022


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