Max Gallien
@MaxGallien
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Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow @IDS_UK and @ICTDTax. 💚🐧
Brighton, England
Joined July 2013
It's taken me way too long to do this, but have finally found the time to migrate to the better place. Will cross-post here for a while, but find me there! .
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RT @CSISMidEast: "smuggling is not necessarily subversive; it’s part of a certain mode of state-building," says @MaxGallien in the latest e….
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This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Max Gallien, a political scientist specializing in informal and illegal economies and North African politics. He is a research fellow at the Institute of...
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RT @andreaterenzio: Very interesting podcast by @CSISMidEast in which @MaxGallien discusses the political, social, and economic functions o….
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I really enjoyed speaking to Jon Alterman on the @CSISMidEast Babel podcast about my book 'Smugglers and States'. (The podcast series in general is excellent, would highly recommend checking out the episodes that don't have me on. ).
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This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Max Gallien, a political scientist specializing in informal and illegal economies and North African politics. He is a research fellow at the Institute of...
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One of the consequences of whatever has happened to the algorithm on here since Musk took over is that it feels like we're all seeing more and more of the timeline as he's seeing it. And man, is it a small, shallow and exhausting space.
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RT @JohnHolbein1: Why do academic journals have such strict/varied formatting guidelines on first submission? (Beyond length). Isn’t format….
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@WorldDevJournal @MikeRogan11 @NAnyidoho @VVandenboogaard @WIEGOGLOBAL @IDS_UK @ICTDTax @ISSERUG as usual, all typos are evidence of global conspiracy and sleep deprivation.
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📰NEW PAPER One common misconceptions about informal economies is that they do not pay taxes. In our new @WorldDevJournal article we use a survey of 2500 informal workers in Accra to show that tax burdens can be very real, highly regressive, and skewed:.
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I don't know how you're spending your coffee breaks but I'm happy to confirm that the answer to the question."Are seasonal effects driving how well the Guardian Blind Dates are going?" is probably no.
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RT @FrontierMin: Come work with us @ElliottSchoolGW! We are looking for a full-time faculty member with an associate or full professor rank….
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RT @TaxJusticeNet: 🚨 What is the #StateofTaxJustice in 2024?. Find out tomorrow in our latest report, exposing the scale of tax abuse by mu….
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RT @Lylamehta: Great contributions on #Gaza by @IDS_UK colleagues "Whether or not a ‘technical’ famine occurred, Israel has systematicall….
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This paper assesses the extent to which a famine occurred in Gaza. It concludes that, whilst the answer depends on which definition of famine is used, Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war against...
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RT @FranziscaZ: 📢Looking for 2 PostDocs and 1 PhD researcher for my @ERC_Research project POLMIG: the positions will be for four years, bas….
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I really enjoyed contributing to this project, with a chapter on "Chequered value chains: globalisation made in the borderlands" - it's an honour to be in such great company. The entire book is available online and for free! Link below 👇.
🚨 New publication | Borders of Conflict: Navigating Policy in a Transnational Ecosystem. This @ChathamHouse, @Global_Policy & @XCEPT_Research e-book, edited by @renadmansour, includes 9 essays on transnational conflict in the Middle East & Africa 🧵(1/6).
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With #MESA2024 starting today. .
The distribution of papers at the @MESA_1966 annual meetings is a good indicator of the geographic distribution of anglophone Middle Eastern Studies.*.Oman with an unexpected third place this year, just ahead of Palestine.
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RT @TC_BMJ: November Issue: Countries with large loose cigarette markets should opt for large rather than incremental tax increases in orde….
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RT @Armed_Groups: For Kurdish smugglers, checkpoints mean more than just barriers—they’re sites of complex power struggles. Explore how 'Pe….
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Such a pleasure to see old and new friends at @IMESatGWU last week! (With a special thanks to @GWGeography for co-hosting!)
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RT @peer_schouten: New checkpoint working paper out!. Announcing '‘Escaping isn’t for everyone’: Kurdish smugglers’ navigational tactics at….
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