
Chris Blattman
@cblatts
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Economist & political scientist @UChicago @HarrisPolicy studying conflict & organized crime. My book is Why We Fight: https://t.co/pwWjDnYzvo
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2009
One thing missing from a lot of the reporting on State Dept cuts is that this will bring total hires back to the level of 2020, which itself was a peak level.
NEW: The State Department will begin firing personnel “soon” as Secretary of State Rubio implements his dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an email from a top State Department official to staff.
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1/ New paper: Democracies only grow faster than autocracies because of personalist leaders. Bad things mainly happen in overcentralized, unchecked regimes. New from me, Scott Gehlbach & @arthurzeyangyu, The Personalist Penalty:.
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RT @AlecStapp: Still hearing a lot about “Blue Zones” being the secret to longevity. But the theory was debunked a while ago. Areas of th….
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Great to have smart principled people stepping up for the hard jobs. No one better than Anup.
I am excited to announce that I am starting a new position this week as Chief Economist at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. I'll be on leave from the University of Chicago. The usual disclaimer applies: Any views I express here are not intended to reflect the.
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RT @LaurenBinDC: Friday Fun Fact: Zohran's father, famed academic Mahmood Mamdani, came to the US from Uganda to study in 1963 as part of t….
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RT @AEAjournals: Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Sco….
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RT @rohanpaul_ai: ChatGPT literally saved this guy’s life after he got lost in the woods. The groupd got lost for 5 hrs in unmapped woods….
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Wow.
How a Netanyahu wedding fooled Iran into complacency. I explained on @N12News:. The circle of secret partners was small, and the event with the Netanyahu family was much more significant, as there was also a wedding. Now, I want to say something about this surreal wedding.
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Highly recommended interview.
When @krogoff first engaged with Chinese leadership in 2001, he was struck by their competence — and their openness to critical outside views. Early in the Xi era, he warned top Party leaders: Power is centralizing. This won’t be good for growth. Instead of punishing him,
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Great interview between @gideonrachman and historian Rama Mitter on Xi Jinping’s life and career and why he’s pushing the political system into a personalistic one.
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Maybe the best podcast episode on US politics that I have listened to all year. Mccarthy is surprisingly candid for a seated elected leader, and extremely thoughtful and well spoken. I wish more politicians could have conversations like this. No.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy: In Defence of Donald Trump (LEADING). @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK are joined by @SpeakerMcCarthy to discuss:. 🍊Is Trump Derangement Syndrome real?.🦊Why you underestimate Trump at your peril.💰Is there too much money in politics?
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