
Chris Blattman
@cblatts
Economist & political scientist @UChicago @HarrisPolicy studying conflict & organized crime. My book is Why We Fight: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
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Fantastic paper in the Journal of Political Economy JPE titled "Of Cities and Slums" by Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Luciene Torres de Mello Pereira journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…



New graffiti aimed at Americans coming for sex tourism in Medellin just dropped. h/t Santiago TobĂłn


.@WHCA President Eugene Daniels: "We journalists are a lot of things. We are competitive and pushy. We are impatient and sometimes we think we know everything...What we are not is the opposition. What we are not is the enemy of people. What we are not is the enemy of the state."

"Bad medicine: Why different systems of organized crime demand different solutions" This is such a fascinating analysis by Chris Blattman, examining locally-specific drivers of violence. He does not credit the state or politicians with a major role in Colombia's decline in violence.






Chris Blattman "TSA currently accepts expired ID up to two years after expiration, for the above listed forms of identification." tsa.gov/travel/securit…









