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Links – 01/29/2017

  • Posted on January 29, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

In my post on slavery and capitalism, I mention Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s view that, despite what some people have claimed, slavery was actually economically efficient and it wasn’t abolished because it was not profitable. A survey of economists…

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About that executive order on immigration

  • Posted on January 28, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you no doubt know, Trump signed an executive order about immigration on Friday, which led to mass hysteria since yesterday as some people were denied entry into the US and detained in airports. Let me start by saying that I…

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Obama did not deport more illegal aliens than any other President

  • Posted on January 28, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

For as long as I have been in the US, and I arrived in 2010, I have heard people say that Obama deported more illegal aliens than any other President. The people who say that are usually liberals, progressives or libertarians who…

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Links – 01/27/2017

  • Posted on January 27, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Sean Trende and David Byler recently published a series of posts on RealClearPolitics in which they analyze the results of the presidential election and put them in historical context. Among people who are paid to talk about politics, Trende is…

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Why election models did not predict Trump’s victory

  • Posted on January 24, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I wrote a slightly different version of this post on Facebook the day before the election, in order to argue why it was irrational to buy the claims made by some pundits, such as Sam Wang from the Princeton Election…

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Not all foreign interferences in the US presidential election are equal

  • Posted on January 22, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Kenneth Vogel and David Stern have a very good piece in Politico on the efforts by the Ukrainian government to undermine Trump during the campaign and how they are trying to make amends now that he won. It’s worth noting that, while the…

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