Over the last month or so, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has been pushing out excellent content – particularly as it surrounds all of the political craziness and chaos.
Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President
How Economic Gobbledygook Divides Us
What Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim can tell us about economics
Why “God is in Control” is Just the Starting Place
American Political Decay or Renewal?
If you haven’t watched this, well, you’re welcome:
The Surprising News About Unreached People Groups
How to help microenterprises scale up their business: Evidence from South Africa (Spoiler: it is about targeting specific programming for specific types of people.)
Remember #BringBackOurGirls? It hasn’t gotten better, and it is probably worse
‘Africa Rising’? ‘Africa Reeling’ May be More Fitting Now “Africa Yearning or Africa Struggling might be a more apt characterization, but neither of these is especially new. Whatever narrative emerges should include what Mr. Chelwa calls the continent’s “ghastly inequality,” and the sharp increase in the number of people who are now better equipped with technology and information and are demanding more from their governments.”
What the Red Sox – Yankees Rivalry Can Teach Us About Political Polarization Quote: “I can hate the Yankees, feel wronged that Tom Brady is benched for a few games, and make the absurd claim that I would be very upset if my sons married Yankees fans. In sports, irrational partisan feelings are permissible because the stakes are so low. Irrational partisan emotions clearly exist in politics, too, but in politics we should be ashamed of them.”
Bruce Wydick reviews “Misbehaving” by Richard Thaler
Zombie facts in development that just don’t die – “70% of people living in poverty are women”
The problem with one of the most popular assumptions about the poor
Does Truth & Reconciliation Work?
Have RCTs Taken Over Development Economics?
More than 100 Nobel Laureates take on Greenpeace over GMO opposition
Michael Kremer on Conducting Field Research in Developing Countries
A Guide to Debunking Debunking News Stories – Thoughts after finding out that the replication of the replication study in psychology didn’t replicate.
RCTs in development economics: What’s all the fighting about?
Microeconomists’ claims that they are doing real science turn out to be true
A Kenyan entrepreneur talks about the “fetishization of entrepreneurship” and why people can’t “entrepreneur around bad leadership or bad policies”.
David Evens and Bruce Wydick share some important resources for understanding if My NGO is Having a Positive Impact.
Sharing Solutions to Poverty – What can the US learn about fighting poverty within it’s borders from the fight against poverty around the world?
The Roosevelt Approach – Dave Brooks on Sanders, Trump, and “neighborliness”.
That time the World Bank emailed out Allen Iverson’s “Practice Rant”
No more poverty! (Well, that depends how you define it…)
