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Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results are potentially erroneous has made those conducting social science research more determined to ensure the underlying re... Read More about Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science

Getting inside the heads of the developing world's dictators, warlords, and corrupt politicians Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Ch... Read More about Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations

Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results are potentially erroneous has made those conducting social science research more determined to ensure the underlying re... Read More about Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research: How to Do Open Science

Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy. By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While "economic miracles" in China and India raised hundreds of millions f... Read More about Africa's Turn? (Boston Review Books)