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A New Order of Things

Big infrastructure projects in the developing world for things like water and electricity are under-pressure. Chinese and US funding is down and these projects often fall apart due to corruption and political incentives to build but not maintain. It is possible to break old institutions and establish new ones, but “there is nothing more difficult to […] The post A New Order of Things appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe 21st Century ROAD to Housing ActChristopher Sims, RI...

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Collective Mourning, Collective Action

Collective Mourning, Collective Action When our four children were much younger, our family squeezed into our minivan for a cross-country trip from Arizona to Washington D.C., thinking this might possibly be the last time we could coax the two oldest into a two-week vacation that included their parents. We took a southern route with stops along the way at historical sites and spent the better part of one day in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. It was there that we saw poignant and distu...

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