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14 Mar 2018 Conversations with Tyler Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What's Interesting
“What happened in your childhood was a reaction to a series of political and economic shocks and a search for equilibrium after that. It’s possible that we will see very dramatic political and economic shocks to destabilize that many countries again, but I don’t see them coming very soon.”
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…Because you see independent regions, the number of civil wars seem to be declining, and whether there’s any specific theory that would account for that, or is there some global contagion possibility? There’s always the chance of a global contagion. I usually think of the incentives as aligned for peace, so war is the puzzle to be explained. I don’t think of the . . . how would I say this? What happened in your childhood was a reaction to a series of political and economic shocks and a search for equilibrium after that. It’s possible that we will see very dramatic political and economic shocks to destabilize that many countries again, but I don’t see them coming very soon. What does the median economist/global development thinker fail to appreciate regarding order and conflict and violence, someone who knows a lot about the topic, but you feel you have a key or core insight that they don’t?…
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