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Chris Blattman

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01 / prediction

What this led me to do, and how I got started on the path of studying war, actually, is by realizing that some commodities are just hugely volatile in price for various circumstances, and some are not. So, if we wanted to understand long-term paths of development and why some places weren’t prosperous, it’s because they lost the commodity lottery, and they got a volatile commodity rather than a stable one.

“What this led me to do, and how I got started on the path of studying war, actually, is by realizing that some commodities are just hugely volatile in price for various circumstances, and some are not. So, if we wanted to understand long-term paths of development and why some places weren’t prosperous, it’s because they lost the commodity lottery, and they got a volatile commodity rather than a stable one.”
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Chris Blattman
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Conversations with Tyler

02 / prediction

If war happens, then it’s going to be that much more catastrophic, which is maybe a pattern we’ve seen over the past century. But it comes back to this calculus of not feeling like there’s some equilibrium level of violence that just happens because violence happens, but that this is something that is often strenuously avoided because it just pulls people so far back.

“If war happens, then it’s going to be that much more catastrophic, which is maybe a pattern we’ve seen over the past century. But it comes back to this calculus of not feeling like there’s some equilibrium level of violence that just happens because violence happens, but that this is something that is often strenuously avoided because it just pulls people so far back.”
Speaker
Chris Blattman
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler
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