Lies my newspaper told me: preference erosion
One thing I’ve discovered is that it’s useless trying to get a handle on the WTO negotiations from what you read in the press. The subject is too...
Life
The upside-down of WTO negotiations...
The WTO is one of those things that only get weirder the more you learn about them. One baffling fact – the one my dissertation is centered on...
The upside-down of WTO negotiations...
The WTO is one of those things that only get weirder the more you learn about them. One baffling fact – the one my dissertation is centered on...
A WTO Update
You can always tell when I’m spending less time obsessing about Venezuela and more time working on my dissertation by the volume of posts here. I’m preparing for...
A WTO Update
You can always tell when I’m spending less time obsessing about Venezuela and more time working on my dissertation by the volume of posts here. I’m preparing for...
Propagandizing the Chavista Party/Government/State/Nation
I hadn’t seen this when I wrote yesterday’s post, but this photo-rant (in Oil Wars, of all places) nicely illustrates the collapse of the distinctions between party, government,...
Novelties
I’ve updated the links column with some deliciously incriminating Chavez-hugs-a-tyrant pics, and added a link in the Reader’s Guide to this very lucid piece on Chavez in the...
Propagandizing the Chavista Party/Government/State/Nation
I hadn’t seen this when I wrote yesterday’s post, but this photo-rant (in Oil Wars, of all places) nicely illustrates the collapse of the distinctions between party, government,...
Novelties
I’ve updated the links column with some deliciously incriminating Chavez-hugs-a-tyrant pics, and added a link in the Reader’s Guide to this very lucid piece on Chavez in the...
III. The "democratic revolution" is a contradiction in terms
Democracy implies a clear delineation of the conceptual boundaries between “party,” “government,” “state,” and “nation.” Democracy conceives of the state as the institutional incarnation of the nation, something...
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