During one conversation at Sean’s Russia Blog, the commentator Evgeny referred me to a work by Russian political analyst & nationalist Konstantin Krylov, Поведение (“Behavior”). In it he tries to classify the world’s civilizations into four ethical systems (South – tribal, East – collectivist, West – individualist, North – kind of like communism?, and not […]
Human Biodiversity, Psychometrics, and Evolutionary Psychology
That ancient question - what accounts for the wealth of nations? Don't tax yourself with Adam Smith or Landes. It's mostly intelligence, with a small dash of social cohesion.
Diasporas and Barbarians
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on November 7, 2009 .8 Comments
Education as the Elixir of Growth II
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A while ago I wrote Education as the Elixir of Growth on DR, in which I noted that in most countries the educational profile is closely correlated to their level of productivity. The major exceptions are nations with resource windfalls (inflated productivity) and socialist legacies (deflated productivity). Furthermore, the greater the gap between the ‘potential […]
Education as the Elixir of Growth
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on March 10, 2008 .11 Comments
What are the reasons behind the wealth and poverty of nations? Since this question has exercised the minds of thinkers from Adam Smith to David Landes, Jared Diamond and Richard Lynn, I decided to take a look at it myself. I came to the conclusion that while geography, macroeconomic policies, resource windfalls and the microeconomic […]
